scrubwoman
Americannoun
Sensitive Note
See woman.
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Origin of scrubwoman
Example Sentences
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Every member of President Paul von Hindenburg's household, from his bashful scrubwoman to his self-important State Secretary, sat down to lunch at one long table in the drawing room two days before Christmas.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does it every time, and so does the scrubwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Winifred Westover spent six weeks eating fattening foods so as to be big enough for the title role in this biography of a cook and scrubwoman with a big heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Purity relates the very miserable story of an old Parisian scrubwoman who runs across a starved young man in a park, takes him to her pension, supports him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Johnny looked like a handsome, devil-may-care Irish boy instead of the husband of a scrubwoman and the father of two children who were always hungry.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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