charwoman
Americannoun
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charwomen
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noun
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Origin of charwoman
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Ms. Corn presents serious works, such as Gordon Parks’s arresting 1942 photograph of the charwoman Ella Watson standing before an American flag with a mop and broom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
She later got a job as a charwoman, but left her employers, stealing some clothes.
From BBC ● May 1, 2021
Her father, a shipyard worker, died of pneumonia a month before her birth, and her mother worked as a charwoman to raise her and her sister, Dot.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2019
Steve Beall generates some droll moments as a lascivious doctor, and Liz Dutton is splendidly ominous as a silent charwoman charged with cleaning up after executions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2016
The charwoman was going on; but here Leah turned and perceived me, and she instantly gave her companion a nudge.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
Bankers and charwomen stampeded his ramshackle office in Boston's Pie Alley to lend him money.
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
Two years ago he eliminated scores of Moscow bureaus, ordered 60,000 employees, from charwomen to ranking executives, moved to regional councils thousands of miles away.
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
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