charwoman
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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
Steve Beall generates some droll moments as a lascivious doctor, and Liz Dutton is splendidly ominous as a silent charwoman charged with cleaning up after executions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2016
His father was a marble cutter, his mother a charwoman.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
Oaks' swishy Marc Anthony and a hilarious, light- fingered Gommels as the Polish charwoman piano accompanist for the travesty.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2010
Perhaps it is where the charwoman who stole the cabbages was sent.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
A determined democrat as well as a crusading Tory, she once had some Whitehall charwomen in to afternoon tea at 10 Downing Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
As stenographers, office boys and charwomen looked into their pay envelopes, from which the Government had deducted the tax, they found just what last April's tax bill meant to them.
From Time Magazine Archive
No longer will there be the old carefree days of private flats and charwomen who bring in a bedside cup of early-morning tea.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the love for an old hall by a college pf dons dooms charwomen to carry coal scuttles up and slop jars down three flights of stairs, the conservatism has a flavor not idyllic.
From Time Magazine Archive
I once, indeed, overheard part of a dialogue between Leah and one of the charwomen, of which Grace formed the subject.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
