scullerymaid

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scullerymaid (plural scullerymaids)

  1. Alternative form of scullery maid
    • 1882, Leslie Stephen, “Stella and Vanessa”, in Swift, London: Macmillan and Co., page 122:
      From the wives of peers and the daughters of lord-lieutenants down to Dublin tradeswomen with a taste for rhyming, and even scullerymaids with no tastes at all, a whole hierarchy of female slaves bowed to his rule, and were admitted into higher and lower degrees of favour.
    • 1896, Sydney C. Grier [pen name; Hilda Gregg], ““The Voice of England in the East.””, in His Excellency’s English Governess, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 326:
      At the end of the train of women and agas rode Azim Bey and his attendants, obliged to follow even the negresses who acted as cooks and scullerymaids, a humiliation which sorely tasked the boy’s proud spirit.
    • 1912, Awards, Recommendations, Agreements, Orders, Etc., New Zealand. Department of Labour, page 362:
      A sculleryman may be employed at not less than £1; a scullerymaid may be employed at not less than 17s. 6d.
    • 1914, Reports of Proceedings Before the Boards of Conciliation and the Court of Arbitration, Western Australia. Court of Arbitration, page 148:
      Persons employed in the capacities of kitchenmen, pantrymen, scullerymen, waiters, porters (day and night), yardmen, handymen, oyster openers, waitresses, kitchenmaids, scullerymaids, and pantrymaids, are all provided for in a scale, the minimum of which is £1 and the maximum £1 12s. 6d., which is the wage for the waiter.
    • 1968 July 10, The Western Australian Industrial Gazette, page 292:
      Kitchenmaid, pantrymaid, scullerymaid, cleaner, general hand and unspecified workers [“Male $”:] — [“Female $”:] 5.85