Abigail vs Hongsheng - What's the difference?
abigail | hongsheng |
(obsolete) A lady’s waiting maid.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 415:
* 1847 , Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre :
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abigail
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.
- In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails , I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
