Handmaiden n. : A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

Example:
Anyone have any idea what a Handmaiden to the Biblical Bathsheba might have worn?

Taxonomy
handmaiden, free encyclopedia, clothes airer, religious practices, Domestic work, domestic laundry, concubines, search, handmaid, assistant, Victorian times, rectangular frames, horizontal rails, kitchen, fireplace, Biblical character, articles with unsourced statements, wife.

Defination from the web:
handmaiden was the common term in Victorian times for a wooden, hinged clothes airer having two rectangular frames hinged vertically and with ... In Ancient Egypt, the role of handmaiden was important to Egyptian religious practices. ...