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Definition of Bondmaid

Bondmaid
Bondmaid Bond"maid`, n. [Bond,a.orn.+ maid.] A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

Meaning of Bondmaid from wikipedia

- Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage...
- The Bondmaid is 1998 novel by Catherine Lim, which tells a tragic love story of Wu, the master of a household, and Han, his maid, in 1950s Singapore. Sold...
- Peony, published in the UK as The Bondmaid, is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China's Kaifeng Jews. Peony is set in...
- published in 1982. Other books that have been published since then include The Bondmaid (1995) and Following the Wrong God Home (2001). The major theme in her...
- fascicles were decades old. The supplement included at least one word (bondmaid) accidentally omitted when its slips were misplaced; many words and senses...
- the murders of individuals such as Khabbab ibn al-Aratt and his pregnant bondmaid. Where there, during these investigations, al-Abdi was killed. Abdallah...
- John Sedges Peony (New York: John Day, 1948) – published in the UK as The Bondmaid (London: T. Brun, 1949); – serialized in Cosmopolitan (3–4/1948) Kinfolk...
- alternately meaning "snub" or snub-nosed. The word "'hnufa' also refers to a bondmaid whose nose has been cut off for theft thrice repeated. "Informasjon om...
- addition, Turanshah used to drink alcohol and when drunk he abused the bondmaids of his father and threatened the Mamluks. Turanshah was ********inated by...
- comitisse de Chelmo). He had a clerk or ****istant, Mojše, who sold two of his bondmaids in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) that year. Although Dobravac's jurisdiction is unknown...