Now arch. [WAITING ppl. a.] A female servant, or personal attendant.
1565. in Burgon, Gresham (1839), II. 391. Suffring only one waiting wooman to attende upon her.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., V. ii. 91. By all Dianas waiting women yond: And by her selfe, I will not tell you whose.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, X. v. Being now left alone with her maid, she told her trusty waiting-woman, That she never was more easy than at present.
1831. Scott, Chron. Canongate, Introd. Neither the Highland cicerone MacLeish, nor the demure waiting-woman, were drawn from imagination.
