charwoman

Example Sentences

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In fact, there doesn’t seem much to like about Bedford, who often treated her meekly devoted lovers like servants and charwomen.

From Washington Post

In the poster-size blowup of Parks’s best-known image, Watson, an African-American charwoman for the federal government in Washington, holds her broom, straw head up, as if it were her staff of office.

From The Wall Street Journal

These informal arrangements became formal two years later, with an agreement between the two organisations that all new staff should be vetted except "personnel such as charwomen".

From BBC

In fact, the charwoman scene in “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol” — it walks that line of macabre humor.

From Washington Post

Burnett donated that stunning assemblage to the National Museum of American History, along with her charwoman costume, which is on view in the museum’s Laughing Matters display.

From Washington Post