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fille de chambre
A lady's maid or chambermaid, especially one employed to attend to a woman's private apartments and personal needs; historically, a young unmarried woman servant responsible for bedroom duties in a household.
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Would not the owl have shrieked and the cricket cried in my very title-page? and could it have been possible for me, with a moderate attention to decorum, to introduce any scene more lively than might be produced by the jocularity of a clownish but faithful valet, or the garrulous narrative of the heroine's fille-de-chambre, when rehearsing the stories of blood and horror which she had heard in the servants' hall?
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