Meanings
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noun
historical: a lady's maid or female personal attendant
An abigail carried the folded gowns upstairs to her mistress.
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Etymology
From the female given name Abigail, Hebrew Avigayil, traditionally interpreted as 'my father's joy.' The name became a common noun for a lady's maid after Abigail, a waiting woman in the seventeenth-century play The Scornful Lady.