下げ女じょ下げ男なん

noun

servants; maids and manservants

Historical term for household servants, encompassing both female (下女) and male (下男) workers. Not used in contemporary Japanese outside historical or literary contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの大おお店だなでは、下げ女じょ下げ男なんが何なん人にんも働はたらいていた。

  In large merchant houses of the Edo period, many servants worked.