parlourmaid vs amah

parlourmaid and amah both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
parlourmaid	Yes	No	No	No
amah	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, amah is a hypernym of parlourmaid; that is, amah is a word with a broader meaning than parlourmaid:

parlourmaid: a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door
amah: a female domestic

Other hypernyms of parlourmaid include housemaid, maid, maidservant.

parlourmaid (noun)	amah (noun)
a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door	a female domestic
	a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else