Obs. [f. WASH v.] A maid-servant employed in washing clothes.
c. 1610. Lady Compton, in Grose, Antiq. Rep. (1808), III. 438. Not pestering my Things with my Womens, nor theirs with Chambermaids, nor theirs with Washmaids.
1673. Rutland MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1905), IV. 550. To my Lady’s washmayd, 1 ginny.
1632. Shadwell, Lanc. Witches, II. i. 17. My Woman-Chambermaid, Wash-maid, Cook-Maid, &c.
