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Noun
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But when Chris hires au pair Sandrine (Makowski), the young French woman triggers an unsettling shift in the household.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025 -
Option 1: Au Pair An au pair is a caregiver from overseas who lives with an American family to help care for their children.—
Christina Crawford,
Parents,
16 Jan. 2025
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Other fan-familiar characters include Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser (Jamie’s godfather and Brian’s cousin, played by Rory Alexander) and Mrs. Fitz (Ellen’s lady-in-waiting and Murtagh’s mother, played by Sally Messham).—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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But while many ladies-in-waiting suffered as their queens fell out of favor, Jane has the distinction of being the only one to lose her actual head.—
Eva Wolchover,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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Prior soon learned that a job agency had sent the teenager, who couldn’t read, to seek employment at the house as a chambermaid.—
Jenna Deep,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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Her follow-up project, The Hotel (1981), saw Calle assuming the role of chambermaid at a Venetian inn.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
26 Oct. 2024
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Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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Soon after, tensions between the couple boiled over and Dr. Ruxton murdered his wife and the household’s nursemaid, Mary.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
8 Dec. 2024
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At the time, each team’s clubhouse attendant was often responsible for grinding up rosin in a blender and throwing it in a sock.—
Jason Mastrodonato,
Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2025
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This first attendant is someone who has already gone through her own ceremony.—
Alejandra Rubio,
NPR,
29 Mar. 2025
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Many are the children of immigrants who work or worked as nannies, caregivers to the elderly, housekeepers and gardeners.—
Daisy Verduzco Reyes,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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Her relationships with her father, godmother and confidante, Lizzie, who is a housekeeper for the Murray family, are wonderfully well-written.—
The Know,
The Denver Post,
2 Mar. 2025
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) After making her small screen debut aged eight, a 14-year-old Knightley entered the big leagues in George Lucas’s sci-fi epic, as a dutiful handmaiden to the pale-faced queen (Natalie Portman), who serves as her steely decoy.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2025
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However, like the original, it’s also grounded in the paranoia, compromises, and drudgery that are the handmaidens of intelligence work.—
Andy Meek,
airmail.news,
23 Nov. 2024
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