Milkmaid
A milkmaid, milk maid, milkwoman, dairymaid, or dairywoman is a girl or woman who milks cows.milkman in the sense of one who delivers milk to the consumer;[citation needed] it is the female equivalent of milkman in the sense of cowman or dairyman.[2]
shoulder yoke
As a result of exposure to
immunity to the disfiguring (and often fatal) disease smallpox, it was noticed that milkmaids lacked the scarred, pockmarked complexion common to smallpox survivors. This observation led to the development of the first vaccine.[3]
Cultural references
- A legend of a Saint Cuthbert to the site of the present city of Durhamin 995 AD.
- There is a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer entitled The Milkmaid (c. 1658).
- Aelbert Cuyp, another Dutch artist, created the drawing known as A Milkmaid (c. 1640–1650).
- The eponymous heroine of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1892) works as a milkmaid.
- The folktale The milkmaid and her pail is a cautionary tale about a milkmaid who spends her time daydreaming.
- The California native flower commonly called milkmaids is named for its resemblance to the hat often worn by milkmaids.
- Kid Harpoon has a song called "Milkmaid"; the music video features actress Juno Temple.
- Tori Amos references a milkmaid in the first verse of the song "Father Lucifer”.
- The "8th day" verse of the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" mentions "eight maids a-milking".[4]
- The Philippines has a Nestle.
- The San Francisco Milk Maid is cookbook author Louella Hill, author of Kitchen Creamery (Chronicle, 2014).
- The character Milkmaid in August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata.
See also
- Milkman
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-933088-1. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- JSTOR 43344800.
The standard edition of the cookbook glosses deye as 'dairymaid', and indeed the term is otherwise recorded as a simplex in Middle English only with this meaning or the masculine equivalent 'dairyman'.
- PMID 15886151. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
- ^ The Associated Press (November 26, 2012). "'12 days of Christmas' cost: How much is a partridge in a pear tree?". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
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