charwoman

Example Sentences

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His mother, Georgina, was a charwoman, but he recalled nothing of his father, Thomas, who worked in an iron foundry.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2020

Her father, a shipyard worker, died of pneumonia a month before her birth, and her mother worked as a charwoman to raise her and her sister, Dot.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2019

His father was a marble worker, and his mother was a charwoman.

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2015

His father was a marble cutter, his mother a charwoman.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2015

Perhaps it is where the charwoman who stole the cabbages was sent.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein