Definition of "maidservants" [maidservants]

• Plural form of maidservant. (noun)

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• "She ran into the house, calling her maidservants, Katya, Sasha, come quick!"
• "I was also startled by the brutal violence with which Odysseus and Telemachus dispose of Penelope's suitors and the maidservants."
• "We're not quite sure how this novel made it onto our shelves; it won the Whitbread Prize in 1999 and is set largely in the royal court of Denmark in 1629 and 1630, where a young English musician falls in love with one of the king's estranged wife's maidservants."