Meaning of charlady | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.

archaic, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“"Then we'll move⟳." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw⟳ the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise⟳ them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream⟳ to the safety of the area below.”

“MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean⟳ that novelists and dramatists hate⟳ charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own⟳ book or his own⟳ play⟳.”

“He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion.”

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