charwoman
Example Sentences
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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
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 cutter, his mother a charwoman.
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2015
Her stepmother, Susie Peeler Johnson, worked as a charwoman at the grand Union Station train depot to help support the family.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
