下げ女じょ

noun

maidservant

Dated term for a female domestic servant, common in historical or period contexts. In modern Japanese, メイド or 家政婦 are more typical.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの商しょう家かでは、下げ女じょが家か事じをしていた。

  In merchant houses of the Edo period, maidservants did the housework.