chambermaid
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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 biographer Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American,” said that Audubon’s biological mother was a white French chambermaid who died months after childbirth.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
The son of a French slave-owner and merchant sailor in Haiti and his mistress, a Creole chambermaid believed to have been a slave, the artist was raised in France.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
The improving visibility revealed Polly, the chambermaid who everyone said was simple, and who stayed on late whenever there was a do.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Gabriel had turned in his return ticket in order to stay in Paris, selling the old newspapers and empty bottles that the chambermaids threw out of a gloomy hotel on the Rue Dauphine.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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