definition of the word abigailby the Wiktionnary
From the name Abigail, as given to a waiting-maid in Beaumont & Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady.
abigail (plural abigails)
- (obsolete) A lady's waiting-maid.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 415:
- It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship's horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.
- "abigail" at The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
“abigail” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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