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Slavey   Listen
noun
Slavey  n.  A maidservant. (Colloq. & Jocose Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Slavey" Quotes from Famous Books



... years after. I never saw an English person the whole time I was there. After settling into my new rooms, I wrote out for myself a severe Stundenplan, which I pinned over my head next to my alarm- clock. At 6 every morning I woke up and dashed into the kitchen to have coffee with the solitary slavey; after that I practised the fiddle or piano till 8.30, when we had the pension breakfast; and the rest of the day was taken up by literature, drawing and other lessons. I went to concerts or the opera by myself ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... "you shall hab some in de twinkle ob an eye, as soon as we get home.—Missie Clarice, me carry de pitcher, or Indian fancy you white slavey;" and Rachel laughed ...
— In the Rocky Mountains - A Tale of Adventure • W. H. G. Kingston



Words linked to "Slavey" :   United Kingdom, Great Britain, house servant, UK, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, domestic, domestic help, skivvy



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