chambermaid

And in the French Canadian director Éric Gravel’s 2021 film, “Full Time,” a single mother’s life as the lead chambermaid of a luxury hotel in Paris unfolds with the intensity of a continuous heart attack.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Kéké worked as a hotel chambermaid for more than 15 years and eventually climbed the ladder to next job grade, becoming a governess who managed teams of cleaners.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

In 1981, Calle worked as a chambermaid in a Venetian hotel, using not just a broom and a mop, but also a camera and a cassette recorder.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

The son of a French slave-owner and merchant sailor in Haiti and his mistress, a Creole chambermaid believed to have been a slave, the artist was raised in France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2020

The improving visibility revealed Polly, the chambermaid who everyone said was simple, and who stayed on late whenever there was a do.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

In 2019, along with around 20 chambermaids who were mostly migrant women from sub-Saharan Africa, Kéké fought French hotel giant Accor to obtain better work and pay conditions.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Going by the frequency with which the jobs turn up in the want ads, dressmakers, laundresses, chambermaids and cooks were in high demand.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021

The extra Belvédère staff include “specially recruited people just for mixing cocktails”, as well as baristas, cooks, waiters, doormen, chambermaids and receptionists.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2017

Perhaps this is why the series, unlike Downton, features no actual chambermaids.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2016

“They hadn’t brought any servants with them, so there was that. Serving at table, or in the kitchens. And there were chambermaids, gardeners, laundresses.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor