Abra

ABRA, or Habra. This is a general Word made use of to signify a Maid of Honour, a waiting Gentlewoman, the Maid -servant of a Woman of Quality. By this Name the Scripture calls the young Genes. xxiv. 61. in Græco Ἁβρᾶς. Ex. ii. 5. Esth. ii. 9. iv. 4. 15. Judith viii. 33.Women of Rebekah’s Retinue, those of Pharaoh, King of Egypt’s Daughter, Queen Esther’s, and last of all Judith’s Waiting-woman. Abra is said to signify properly a Milliner or Dresser¹.

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