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
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
His father was a marble worker, and his mother was a charwoman.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2015
His father was a marble cutter, his mother a charwoman.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
Her stepmother, Susie Peeler Johnson, worked as a charwoman at the grand Union Station train depot to help support the family.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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
One involved two London charwomen discussing the inconveniences of a blackout.
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
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
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
