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
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
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
Perhaps it is where the charwoman who stole the cabbages was sent.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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
It did not need a Roosevelt to teach this to me personally, but that is what he has done to the charwomen of London, the bistro proprietor in Provence, the factory hand in Kharkov.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I have been . . . almost moved to tears by the piteous eloquence of those who have insisted upon the inalienable right of charwomen to be mulcted of 2% of their meagre pay.
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
