barmaiden
nounEtymology From bar + maiden.
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Synonym of barmaid.
- And here in this snug little Inn, I exclaimed, / With a barmaiden knowing, and pretty, and sly; / Who to love and confess it would not be ashamed, / How blest could I live, how reluctantly die.1823 May 16, “Tour to the Western States”, in New-England Galaxy, volume VI, number 292, front page, column 2:
- Anything less like the flashy-dressed bar-maidens of the western gin palaces it would be difficult to imagine.1860, Anthony Trollope, “A Day with One of the Navvies.—Afternoon.”, in The Three Clerks. A Novel., New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 188:
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- There being no appearance of wind, we passed the night at Port Chalmers—that semi-amphibious town, whose inhabitants seem to consist chiefly of sailors, shipchandlers, boatmen, barmen, and barmaidens, and an eccentric barber, who has, quite naturally, transferred his services from Greenwich to Port Chalmers.1866 August 1, “A Cruise to the Chatham Islands”, in Otago Daily Times, number 1433, Dunedin, page 5, column 1:
- It is all clean forgotten: machinery in motion, fine arts galleries, foreign commissioners and their squabbles, the Russian village, the Prussian gun, Spiers and Pond’s blonde bar-maidens, the Chinese theatre, the Imperial kiosque, and the American cream-soda saloon.1870 August 22, “Paris Under Arms”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 4,738, London, page 5, column 3:
- “Excellent!” I answered, “finest in the world; take half a page?” “Well, I don’t mind if I do,” he said, and he handed his glass to the nearest barmaiden.[1871], Henry Wraxall, Bracebridge Hemyng, “‘Kempson’s Warning.’”, in The Nobleman on the Turf; or, In Bad Hands, London: Charles H[enry] Clarke, […], page 47:
- Under the heading of “Betsy at the Bar.—A Story of ‘Shouting’ at Charleston,” the Nelson Colonist says:—And the barmaiden whispered ’twere better by far, to make flats pay for champagne who bet at the bar.1871 June 23, The Hawke’s Bay Times, volume 17, number 1,050, page 2, column 2: