abigail

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical: a lady's maid or female personal attendant

   An abigail carried the folded gowns upstairs to her mistress.

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.

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