cook-general

British  

noun

1. (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework

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Example Sentences

And the household generally was in the hands of a trustworthy cook-general, who maintained a tolerable routine.

From Project Gutenberg

He got up, and with those elaborate efforts to be silent that lead to the violent upsetting of chairs, got himself out of the room and into the passage, and was at once rescued by the sympathetic cook-general, in her most generalized form, and given fresh tea in his study—which impressed him as being catastrophically disarranged....

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It was just four, and the cook-general, who ought to have been now in her housemaid's phase, was still upstairs divesting herself of her more culinary characteristics.-307- Marjorie opened the door.

From Project Gutenberg

But their good fortune did not stop here—it extended even to the securing of a "cook-general," a model of her kind, who not only spared the china to an extent almost uncanny, but did not object to "do" the dining-room, and asked for no more than three nights out a week.

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With the assistance of the "cook-general" she made the beds, and dusted the rooms, and laid the table.

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