charwoman
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Burnett was rehearsing for a Thanksgiving TV special with Dick Van Dyke — she sang a number as a character who would become her trademark, the charwoman.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
She later got a job as a charwoman, but left her employers, stealing some clothes.
From BBC ● May 1, 2021
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
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
Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their bowler hats.
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
Two years ago he eliminated scores of Moscow bureaus, ordered 60,000 employees, from charwomen to ranking executives, moved to regional councils thousands of miles away.
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
