Note that 侍 doesn't always "mean samurai", the original meaning of さぶらう is "to serve", so the later さむらい really means "servant" and by extension the servant warriors.  I have never seen 女侍 before this, but 侍女 is a word meaning a female servant.

Judging from the google hits I see, 女侍 appears to be a Chinese word that has a meaning more along the lines of a waitress.  If you search only Japanese sites for 女侍, you do get a lot of (anime-related, of course) pictures of female samurai.

However, Koujien has this:
女侍[おんなざむらい]
柔弱な侍。

The moral of this story is that you cannot simply combine characters to make words without knowing if those words exist beforehand or what they mean.  You can't just say "Kanji A means this and Kanji B means this, so A+B must be a word meaning this."

Last edited by yudantaiteki (2009 November 19, 4:55 pm)