charwoman

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Leah had been saying something I had not caught, and the charwoman remarked—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë