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What is a maid-of-all-work?

What is a maid-of-all-work? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A female servant employed to do general housework.
  2. (humorous) Any person who does a wide range of jobs in a supportive role; a thing that serves a wide range of purposes.
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Charles meets Ella, a young woman who labors as a maid-of-all-work.
The black dwarf had been sent for from the castle, the outwardly stolid and incurious maid-of-all-work informed him.
Ruth, aged 47, the piratical maid-of-all-work in the same opera, seemed merely an old hag-bag figure of fun.
The German told us he had been three years in Afghanistan and six months in Mazar, where he acts as maid-of-all-work for bridges, canals, roads, and building in general.
Amongst the lower middle class only a maid-of-all-work was employed, who often endured very long hours and little prestige.
A nurserymaid is not afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work.

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