女じょ中ちゅう奉ぼう公こう

noun

domestic service; working as a housemaid

Archaic term referring to live-in domestic service, typically by young women in pre-modern Japan. Not used in modern contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、多おおくの若わかい女じょ性せいが女じょ中ちゅう奉公ぼうこうに出でた。

  In the Edo period, many young women went into domestic service.