barmaid

noun

barmaid

noun

UK /ˈbɑː(ɹ).meɪd/

Etymology From bar + maid.

1

A woman who serves in a bar.

  • At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
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barman

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