[Fr.]

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  1.  A lady’s maid.

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1762.  Sterne, Let., 12 Aug. I have got a … decent femme de chambre, and a good-looking laquais.

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1824.  Medwin, Convers. Byron (1832), I. 48. Fletcher’s … wife … was at that time femme de chambre to Lady Byron.

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1849.  Thackeray, Pendennis, lvii. (1885), 564. Martha … as femme de chambre, accompanied her young mistress.

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  2.  A chambermaid.

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1890.  Eng. Illust. Mag., Christmas No. 272. The crisp and beaming femmes de chambre of our neighbours across the Channel.

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