Saturday, June 19, 2010

Barmaid

A woman who serves customers in a tavern or coffee house.

“‘Lookye, wife, a handsome wench in our way of business is as proftable as at the bar of a Temple coffee-house, who looks upon it as her livelihood to grant every liberty but one.’”

John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728).

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