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charwoman

[chahr-woom-uhn] / ˈtʃɑrˌwʊm ən /


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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

A determined democrat as well as a crusading Tory, she once had some Whitehall charwomen in to afternoon tea at 10 Downing Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Bankers and charwomen stampeded his ramshackle office in Boston's Pie Alley to lend him money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their bowler hats.

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




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