It was his practice to sound out anyone - presidents, ambassadors, laundry maids, gardeners - who might have a useful perspective.

As soon as the laundry maid told Topaz that the marquis was back, she had started to wait for him again.

When the laundry maid had told her he had been married, she had gone up to the high moors and wept.

At the end of the 1680s in the household the women's work was shared between a housekeeper, a cook, a laundry maid and a housemaid.

I strolled over toward her, that I might stand directly in front of this pretty little laundry maid.

I 'have no need for a laundry maid 'ere, missus.

A woman and a laundry maid is a clerk?

Fiona is one simple laundry maid of the castle of Paros, with a kind heart.

Fiona - a sixteen year old laundry maid.

"And you have the audacity to call my laundry maid an insolent piece," he returned.