barmaid

From bar +‎ maid.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ).meɪd/

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barmaid (plural barmaids)

1. A woman who serves in a bar. [from 18th c.]
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

     At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.

• barman

Borrowed from English barmaid.

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.mɛjd/

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barmaid f (plural barmaids)

1. barmaid

• “barmaid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.