At the upper end, in a large high-backed chair, sat a female figure, behind whom a tirewoman appeared in waiting. |
Will you go with me as one of my maids, or as a tirewoman perchance? |
The dressing of Ethelberta for the dinner-party was an undertaking into which Picotee threw her whole skill as tirewoman. |
I was her tirewoman, with Giacinta, to whom I will give a husband for the tears of joy she dropped upon the bed. |
Consequently, I sent the tirewoman, in the Queen's hearing, to order the jewels to be brought in. |
Lizzie was no more flurried than if she had stepped that moment from out of the hands of her tirewoman. |