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- noun Plural form of
milkmaid .
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Examples
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Did I mention that this video includes hot milkmaids from the Alps who serve you free booze, and a nude male robot that urinates delicious beer or something?
Boing Boing 2009
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Obviously I am old enough to have known some of Jenner's milkmaids, but even then I think it was taken that vaccines vary.
How dim is Sir Liam Donaldson ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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In another, Krishna, now a gorgeous youth, steals the clothes from a group of bathing milkmaids and climbs up a tree with them, refusing to give them back "Krishna Steals the Gopis' Clothes," Punjab Hills, circa 1775-1800.
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By the time the eight cows with their milkmaids show up on day eight, her house is a disaster, with geese pooping everywhere.
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In another, Krishna, now a gorgeous youth, steals the clothes from a group of bathing milkmaids and climbs up a tree with them, refusing to give them back "Krishna Steals the Gopis' Clothes," Punjab Hills, circa 1775-1800.
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For centuries, people had observed that milkmaids almost never came down with smallpox.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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For centuries, people had observed that milkmaids almost never came down with smallpox.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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An obese Iraqi man, who will himself be a future trainer of incipient milkmaids, gets the answers flowing.
Bovine Intervention 2009
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For centuries, people had observed that milkmaids almost never came down with smallpox.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Edward Jenner was the first to realize that because of their exposure to cowpox, milkmaids were immune when smallpox outbreaks occurred.
Trivia Corner 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word milkmaids
Cardamine californica, or California Toothwort. In Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit writes: "I wasn't sure whether I was too soon or too late for the purple lupine that can be so spectacular in these headlands, but milkmaids were growing on the shady side of the road on the way to the trail, and they recalled the hillsides of my childhood that first bloomed every year with an extravagance of these white flowers." (p 5)
December 24, 2008