charwoman

Example Sentences

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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

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 cutter, his mother a charwoman.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2015

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