milkmaid
milkmaid Lexical Profile
milkmaid Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A woman or girl employed in a dairy to milk cows and prepare dairy products such as butter and cheese.
"Johannes Vermeer's famous painting depicts a milkmaid carefully pouring milk into an earthenware bowl."
North American Any of several perennial wildflowers in the mustard family (genus Cardamine, especially Cardamine californica), native to western North America and bearing clusters of small four-petaled white to pale pink blossoms in early spring.
"Delicate white milkmaids were among the first wildflowers to bloom along the shaded woodland trail after the winter rains."
Word Origin & Etymology
Recorded since the late 14th century in Middle English, formed as a compound of 'milk' (from Old English 'meolc') and 'maid' (shortened from 'maiden', meaning a female servant).