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barmaiden (pluralbarmaidens)

1. Synonym ofbarmaid.
   • 1823 May 16, “Tour to the Western States”, inNew-England Galaxy, volume VI, number292,front page, column 2:

     And here in this snug little Inn, I exclaimed, / With abarmaiden knowing, and pretty, and sly; / Who to love and confess it would not be ashamed, / How blest could I live, how reluctantly die.

   • 1860,Anthony Trollope, “A Day with One of the Navvies.—Afternoon.”, inThe Three Clerks. A Novel., New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […], page188:

     Anything less like the flashy-dressedbar-maidens of the western gin palaces it would be difficult to imagine.

   • 1866 August 1, “A Cruise to the Chatham Islands”, inOtago Daily Times, number1433, Dunedin,page 5, column 1:

     There being no appearance of wind, we passed the night at Port Chalmers—that semi-amphibious town, whose inhabitants seem to consist chiefly of sailors, shipchandlers, boatmen, barmen, andbarmaidens, and an eccentric barber, who has, quite naturally, transferred his services from Greenwich to Port Chalmers.

   • 1870 August 22, “Paris Under Arms”, inThe Daily Telegraph, number4,738, London,page 5, column 3:

     It is all clean forgotten: machinery in motion, fine arts galleries, foreign commissioners and their squabbles, the Russian village, the Prussian gun, Spiers and Pond’s blondebar-maidens, the Chinese theatre, the Imperial kiosque, and the American cream-soda saloon.

   • [1871], Henry Wraxall,Bracebridge Hemyng, “‘Kempson’s Warning.’”, inThe Nobleman on the Turf; or, In Bad Hands, London: Charles H[enry] Clarke, […],page47:

     “Excellent!” I answered, “finest in the world; take half a page?” “Well, I don’t mind if I do,” he said, and he handed his glass to the nearestbarmaiden.

   • 1871 June 23,The Hawke’s Bay Times, volume17, number1,050,page 2, column 2:

     Under the heading of “Betsy at the Bar.—A Story of ‘Shouting’ at Charleston,” the Nelson Colonist says:—And thebarmaiden whispered ’twere better by far, to make flats pay for champagne who bet at the bar.

   • 1871 July 22, [Francis Cowley Burnand], “My Health”, inPunch, or The London Charivari,page27, column 1:

     Go to dinner in Refreshment Room. BrilliantBarmaiden standing out against a background of brilliant and variegated bottles, like what a fancy chemist’s shop might be.

   • 1871 December 6, “The Cattle Show”, inThe Daily News, number7,989, London,page 5, column 4:

     Country visitors to the Agricultural-hall seem chronically hungry, while the town visitors are distinguished, on the contrary, by their addiction to the fluids dispensed by the wondrousbarmaidens of Messrs. Spiers and Pond.

   • 1872 February 7, “On Barmaids”, inC[harles] H[enry] Ross, editor,Judy, or The London Serio-Comic Journal, volume X, London:[…] the Proprietor […], page142, column 1:

     I don’t think that barmen andbarmaidens are in the habit of intermarrying.

   • 1873 January 14,Birmingham Daily Mail, volume V, number729,page 2, column 2:

     As Jews are forbidden to marry with Christians, Mr. Goodman had no business to look with desiring eyes upon the fairbar-maiden at the Steam Clock any more than Brian de Bois Guilbert had to look favourably upon the daughter of Isaac of York.

   • 1874 October 31,The Daily Southern Cross‎^[1], volume XXX, number5,364, Auckland:

     Manfully he bore the punishment until a few days ago, when he received a telegram from thebarmaiden to this effect—“Come down, darling, I’m dying to see you.”

   • 1875, Thomas Bardel Brindley, “Do You Want to Get On?”, inHints, Humorous and Satirical, to All the World and His Wife, 3rd edition, London:Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. […], page30:

     A song or a tale in your own C. T. room, / Is pleasant to hear now and then; / But avoid the bar where local men meet, / And ever thebarmaiden’s “den!”

   • 1875,Young Ireland: An Irish Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction, page77, column 2:

     His eye does not close rapidly in the direction of a dyedbarmaiden, nor does he smirk in Grafton-street between the hours of three and six o’clock.

   • 1878, Bernard Barker, ““Oh, Doth Not a Meeting Like This Make Amends!””, inEliot the Younger. A Fiction in Freehand., volume I, London: Samuel Tinsley & Co., […],pages209–210:

     […] in taking leave of the forlornbarmaiden, he extended her his hand in token of the sympathy he felt.

   • 1883 April 22, “Discouraging Danish Barmaids”, inThe Daily Examiner, volume XXXVI, number112, San Francisco, Calif.,page 2, column 9:

     It will prove difficult in practice to determine whether a girl is or is not “showily-dressed,” and doubtless manybarmaidens will appear even more fascinating to youths of the opposite sex when dressed in a manner the reverse of showy.

   • 1883 September 25, R. H. Lundie, “Licensed Victuallers and Sunday-Closing”, inLiverpool Daily Post, number8807, published 26 September 1883,page 5, column 7:

     It is not difficult for the wealthy brewer or pluralist publican, while he takes his ease in his comfortable dwelling on the Lord’s Day, or rolls in his chariot to the house of prayer, to denounce the agitation in favour of Sunday-closing, while his weary barmen andbarmaidens “work from early morn to midnight” to carpet his ample halls and stable his well-fed horses.

   • 1884 May 30, Currente Calamo: A Phonetic Phantasy,The Bicycling World,page63, column 2:

     Lifting my hat, for etiquette, / And mopping from my brow the swuette, / The smilingbarmaiden I muette.

   • 1887 October, Noel Ruthven, “A Dash Through the Land o’ Cakes”, inFrank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXIV, number 4,page415, column 1:

     Beware of the famous Prestonpans ale, which is so temptingly advertised by freckled and bonniebarmaidens of Perth.

   • 1894 December –1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter VIII, inJude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […], published1896,→OCLC, part III (At Melchester),page215:

     The faces of thebarmaidens had risen in color, each having a pink flush on her cheek;[…]

   • 1898,Andrew Lang, “Introduction”, inChristmas Stories from “Household Words” and “All the Year Round” by Charles Dickens; […] (Gadshill Edition. The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-two Volumes. […]; volume XXXI), volume I, London:Chapman & Hall, Ld.; New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner’s Sons,page xi:

     The essence of the Circumlocution Office is thin and weak, compared to the scorn of the Railwaybarmaiden, “the eighth wonder of monarchical creation.”

   • 1945,Harry Brown,Artie Greengroin, Pfc., New York, N.Y.:Alfred A. Knopf,page187:

     I think I’ll trundle around to a pubs and meet another nicebarmaiden. When you come right down to it,barmaidens are the oney soulful individuals in the whole English Isle. They unnerstand life.

   • 1994,Roy V. Young,Captains Outrageous: or, For Doom the Bell Tolls,TSR,→ISBN,page10:

     Shirley, Max’s daughter, oldest of the threebarmaidens serving in the tavern, strutted purposefully past her two sisters to the ruckus in the rear.

   • 1998 November 15, Abigail Foerstner, “A little breathing room: The challenge of designing costumes for opera”, inChicago Tribune, 152nd year, number319, section 7,page12, column 4:

     Perdziola sets the scene with the arrival of an opera company in elegant “street clothes” of jackets, breeches and cloaks contrasted by Zerbinetta’s comic troupe and her saucybarmaiden appeal.

   • 2005,Evan Dorkin,Bill Morrison,Comic Book Guy’s Book of Pop Culture (The Simpsons Library of Wisdom)‎^[2],HarperCollinsEntertainment,→ISBN:

     ESSENTIAL GAMING EQUIPMENT[…] 4. Mood video (a DVD of “Lusty BustyBarmaidens of Yore #9” is my personal favorite).

   • 2008 July 30 – August 5,The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume42, number44,page34:

     In the early evening, the bar fills with regulars trading anecdotes with tattooed, comely, competence-oozingbarmaidens.

   • 2014 October 1, Katherine Burgess, “‘Everything is from our faith,’ says ‘Miss Kay’”, inThe Jackson Sun, Jackson, Tenn., section “Neighbors”,page 3, column 2:

     “I said, ‘Hello, I’m Miss Kay and I’m a Christianbarmaiden, and everybody in here doesn’t need to be drinking,’” she [Kay Robertson] said to laughter from the crowd.