chambermaid
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She also plans to eavesdrop on shoppers, taking a cue from Sophie Calle, the French artist who went undercover as a chambermaid to photograph hotel guests’ belongings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
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 protagonist of this novel set in Franco-era Spain is a hotel chambermaid who risks her life to gather evidence against her country’s fascist regime.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2019
I’d answered an ad, after all, and would be starting in two weeks as a chambermaid at Brown’s Rooming House in Great Falls.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
At first she thought it must be Less Ellen, along with perhaps Awyss and Feyzi, the chambermaids, and she felt a flicker of annoyance that they had entered unbidden.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
