Definition of "waiting-maid" []

• A maid-servant; a waiting-woman. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "So she stood in the snow at the Greek girl's door, with the frost at sixty below, and parleyed with the waiting-maid for a full five minutes."
• "Another, Lucy Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few months."
• "They will follow up such and such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn a porter."