下しも女じょ中ちゅう

noun

kitchen maid; servant girl

Historical term for a female servant who worked in the kitchen or did general housework, especially in the Edo period. Not used in modern employment contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの商しょう家かでは、下しも女じょ中ちゅうが台だい所どころ仕し事ごとをしていた。

  In merchant houses of the Edo period, kitchen maids did the kitchen work.