Kitchen maid (domestic worker)
A kitchen maid or kitchen girl is a young housemaid, or other junior female domestic worker.
Description
In the hierarchy of a great house, the kitchen maid ranked below a cook and above a scullery maid. An experienced kitchen maid is an assistant cook; the position may be compared to that of a chef de partie in a professional restaurant kitchen.An early meaning of "slut" was "kitchen maid or drudge", a meaning retained as late as the 18th century.
In the 19th century a colloquial version was "kitching-maid".
Known kitchen maids
- Margaret Powell worked as a kitchen girl at the age of 15.