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
Leah had been saying something I had not caught, and the charwoman remarked—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
I have been . . . almost moved to tears by the piteous eloquence of those who have insisted upon the inalienable right of charwomen to be mulcted of 2% of their meagre pay.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the charwomen to the foreign correspondents, everybody who works for the London Daily Telegraph got a jubilant mimeographed note from the boss, and an extra week's pay.
From Time Magazine Archive
To build it, a "spiritual symbol" for the city and the University, he has spent 14 years wheedling money from charwomen and millionaires.
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
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
