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A kitchen maid or kitchen girl is a young housemaid, or other junior female
etymonline.com In the 19th century a colloquial version was "kitching-maid".
A kitchen maid or kitchen girl is a young housemaid, or other junior female domestic worker
A domestic worker or domestic servant is a person who works within the scope of a residence. The term "domestic service" applies to the equivalent occupational category. In traditional English contexts, such a person was said to be "in service ...
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In the hierarchy of a great house, the kitchen maid ranked below a cook and above ascullery maid
In great houses, scullery maids were the lowest-ranked and often the youngest of the female domestic servants and acted as assistant to a kitchen maid.
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The scullery maid reported (through the kitchen maid) to the cook or chef. Along ...
. An experienced kitchen maid is an assistant cook; the position may be compared to that of a chef de partie in a professional kitchen.
An early meaning of " slut" was "kitchen maid or drudge" (c. 1450), a meaning retained as late as the 18th century."slut"etymonline.com In the 19th century a colloquial version was "kitching-maid".
Known kitchen maids
* Margaret Powell worked as a kitchen girl at the age of 15.References
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A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids ...
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Domestic work