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noun
- a slave girl, a servant-girl
- 1962: I at once telephoned. The Shades were out, said the cheeky , an obnoxious little fan who came to cook for them on Sundays and no doubt dreamt of getting the old poet to cuddle her some wifeless day. " Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Etymology: Latin ancillulaLatin, ancillula, diminutive of ancilla "handmaid", a feminine diminutive of anculus "servant".
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