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Definition of barmaid:

  • (noun) a female bartender

Sentence Examples:

The little barmaid's face, all terrified and urgent eyes, danced up and down.

"At the hotels I chuck all the barmaids under the chin, and pretend I'm a dog of a fellow for the sake of this part!"

Still, it had a bar and a barmaid, and indubitably people drank at the bar.

He had married a barmaid, and I knew where his father and mother lay under the sod.

They are a curious people, these English, with their nice ideas, even among barmaids, of the graces of a mellow society.

He had eloped with a barmaid or an opera girl.

The protests of the barmaids were unheeded or unheard.

Admiration mingled with disbelief in the barmaid's voice.

What would Phyllis, proud Phyllis, say, I mused, when she heard that a barmaid was her prototype?

The women whom he had come across in his battle upwards, barmaids and their fellows, fifth-rate actresses, occasionally the suburban wife of a prosperous City man, had impressed him only with a sort of coarse contempt.

Being of a very vain communicative turn, our fair barmaid gave her two companions, not only a pretty long account of herself, but of many other persons in the village, whom she could perceive from the window opposite to which she stood.

To his mind, probably a barmaid out for an innocent lark.

In 1891 an effort was made to introduce the English system of barmaids into the saloons of New York City.

Sam worked up a squeaky voice, and pretended to be the landlady, and Peter pretended to be the good-looking barmaid.

Held it poised for a moment, set it down, and strode away, followed by rapt gazes from the barmaids.

A moment later Tommy reappeared and made straight for the barmaid.

Brand, the father of these two young fellows, married a barmaid, the daughter of a low publican in the neighborhood.

Inside, a few of the lamps around the pillars were lighted, and the body of the floor was roped in as if for dancing; but the hall was empty, save for a barmaid, assisted by a sharp little girl, behind the long bar on one of its sides.

Now, Barmaid was the milk-white mare that was only less notorious than her lawless rider.

Or he would have married a barmaid who would have made him such frightful scenes in public places and would so have torn out his mustache and left visible signs upon his face that he would have been faithful to her for the rest of his days.

A pretty barmaid, with dimples in her elbows, curtsied low as she set down his cup.

The way in which barmaids flirt with their customers is also somewhat conventional, although in quite a different way.

Shockingly large is the number of female servants that become barmaids, and that almost always means prostitutes.

Asks one of the champagne drinkers, interrogating the barmaid.

He saw the lads who have chosen out of their class; barmaids, "bits of fluff."

This sharp remonstrance came from the mistress of the house in which Judith was barmaid, and chief attraction.

A very attractive barmaid dispensed refreshments behind a table.

As the barmaids had fled to the other end of the counter, the visitor altered his tone to one of kindly instruction, and said, "You don't know your disease, and I shall, therefore, do you a kindness by pointing it out to you."

I'd marry a barmaid if she only had sufficient of the needful.

After this regrettable incident the Dolphin dismissed him and his barmaid together.

Craig was laughing with the barmaid and gingerly lighting a cigarette.

The liberality of the barmaid in thus sacrificing a portion of the liquor is more apparent than real.

An English-looking barmaid entered.

Of an excitable nature, she burst into tears, and the barmaid ran in.

She stated that she was a barmaid at the Criterion, and related how the unknown man, whose appearance she described, had entered the bar, called for a whiskey and soda, chatted with her for a few minutes, and then made his exit by the other door.

No busy waiters, no genial landlord or buxom barmaid, not even the sound of cheerful voices.

She has since learned Marlow's blunder, and that he has taken her in her "housewife's dress" for the barmaid.

I've arrived fainting at the end of a long journey because I've not got the buffet manner with barmaids.

Ejaculated the smartly dressed barmaid; "Just wonderful for your time of life!"

It was the younger woman who was the ordinary barmaid; she had bright hair, and the bright vacant stupidity which, in my narrow experience, barmaids so often catch like an infectious disease from their clients.

The barmaid of the "Devonshire" was a comely, respectable young woman, the daughter of a neighboring farmer named Smith.

You see, Beefy was a little bored kissing barmaids, and longed for something more congenial.

The men emptied their mugs in one draft whilst the barmaid looked on in undisguised admiration.

Here are no busy typewriters, no female clerks, no barmaids.

What did he do with his "carriage and people" while he was flirting with the barmaid at Bangor?

A man was leaning over the bar talking familiarly with the barmaid, and he turned to look inquisitively at Marian.

The smart but unimaginative barmaid stared at her in bewilderment.

I considered a minute, and then decided I was as well off where I was as anywhere; so I borrowed yesterday's Morning Advertiser of the barmaid, and sitting down where I could watch the house, pretended to read.

It was produced by the barmaid, frothing over the edge of the tumbler.

The saloon bar is the place for them, and the barmaid shall smile upon them, and they shall have free drinks and free cigars till all's blue; for they are the nation's heroes, and they deserve well of their country.

They will talk quite fluently to the barmaid.

The skipper turns, screws up his face, says 'Howdy' at last, and turns to the barmaid again.

He was elbowing the skipper to one side to get closer to the barmaid.

Bartenders are comrades, but barmaids are usually Gorgons.

A good, smart, showy barmaid has generally learned her trade and knows her customers.

A barmaid industriously polishing the plastic bar glanced up as Gavin slammed the door.

The barmaid settled that and the peculiar type of idler found here.

The earrings were a wedding present to the pretty little barmaid, who had been very civil.

Peppermint should be graciously received there as the barmaid's acknowledged admirer.

Davis to see that her barmaid's curls and dress were nice and jaunty.

They passed an omnibus full of girls of the barmaid type.

Rapidly she approached the slovenly barmaid who stared half in envy, half in hate, at her more fortunate sister.