tirewoman

[ tahyuh r-woo m-uh n ]

/ ˈtaɪərˌwʊm ən /

a lady's maid.

Origin of tirewoman

First recorded in 1605–15; tire³ + -woman

tired out, tiree, tireless, tiresias, tiresome, tirewoman, tirich mir, tiring, tiring room, tiriti, tirl

I will be my own tirewoman till I can find one who comes to me honest.

A Lady of Quality |Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lizzie was no more flurried than if she had stepped that moment from out of the hands of her tirewoman.

The Eustace Diamonds |Anthony Trollope
Will you go with me as one of my maids, or as a tirewoman perchance?

Grisly Grisell |Charlotte M. Yonge
He answers her "coldly," and his eye rests the while on her "tirewoman, the sweet Margot."

Certain Personal Matters |H. G. Wells

At the upper end, in a large high-backed chair, sat a female figure, behind whom a tirewoman appeared in waiting.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 |Various

tirewoman

/ (ˈtaɪəˌwʊmən) /

an obsolete term for lady's maid

C17: see tire ³