dinner lady
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She was only meant to provide cover for one week as a school dinner lady - but Pat Limb stayed and is still working there 40 years on.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
The Ballymena Daily says Kitty's community remembers her "her working as a dinner lady at St. Louis School."
From Fox News ● Jun. 7, 2020
Melville, a former dinner lady, had come into contact with Leith on an internet forum called AYI, an earlier hearing was told.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2015
His father was a labourer and his mother a dinner lady at the local school.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012
Her parents ran a school in Northampton, and the dinner lady was her Auntie Corinne, who cooked fish and chips, Caribbean and the occasional Chinese.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
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