Barmaid
The barmaid in a dream can carry the old books' note of low pleasures and a turning from purity. The dream tends to touch where appetite pulls us toward the easy and the coarse, and to ask what we are reaching for in our diversions, and whether it honours or cheapens what we value.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for barmaid, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
For a man to dream of a barmaid, denotes that his desires run to low pleasures, and he will scorn purity.
For a young woman to dream that she is a barmaid, foretells that she will be attracted to fast men, and that she will prefer irregular pleasures to propriety.