milkmaids's Usage Examples:

fascinated by the rural old wives tale that milkmaids could not get smallpox.

Here he is represented as the son of a king saved from a slaughter of the innocents, brought up by a cowherd, sporting with the milkmaids, and performing miraculous feats in his childhood.

Long's position was generally confirmed by Leslie Thomson's description of the Folger's Two merry milkmaids (1620 ).

When Jenner did variolations on milkmaids who had had cowpox, they never came down with smallpox.

Cow byre The shop itself is a former cow byre, scrubbed and white washed, but sadly not staffed by milkmaids.

Among the names of Krishna are Gopal, the cowherd; Gopinath, the lord of the milkmaids; and Mathuranath, the lord of Muttra.

Synonyms:

farmhand, fieldhand, farm worker, field hand, dairymaid,

Antonyms:

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