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Singing Chambermaids

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in theatrical parlance, mean those smart young light comedy actresses who perform chambermaids and are good singers.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sinecure [si-ne-kure]
Sinews of War
Sing a Song o Sixpence
Sing my Music, and not Yours
Sing Old Rose
Sing Out
Sing-su-hay
Singapores
Singing Apple
Singing-Bread
Singing Chambermaids
Singing Tree
Singing in Tribulation
Single-Speech Hamilton
Sinister (Latin, on the left hand)
Sinning One’s Mercies
Sinon
Sintram
Sir
Sir Oracle
Sir Roger de Coverley