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
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
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
The charwoman was going on; but here Leah turned and perceived me, and she instantly gave her companion a nudge.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
He preached quietly, but with an actor's skill, and in a voice so rich and delicate that board chairmen and bored charwomen alike would come back again and again for more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire two more charwomen to assist the one already employed.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the love for an old hall by a college pf dons dooms charwomen to carry coal scuttles up and slop jars down three flights of stairs, the conservatism has a flavor not idyllic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every night the names are scrambled and a canvas curtain is drawn to make doubly sure that spying charwomen will learn nothing they can leak to NBC.
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
