Charwoman

Definitions

A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.

British

Equivalents

Examples

“The cloth was laid by an occasional charwoman, who officiated in the capacity of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s housekeeper; […]”

“Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face⟳ had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.”

“This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own⟳ resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent⟳ of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.”

“But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.”

“[H]e described the speech of the charwoman washing the hotel stairs and gave lists of words collected from the bathmen.”

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