scrubwoman
Americannoun
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scrubwomen
plural
Sensitive Note
See woman.
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Origin of scrubwoman
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She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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He does it every time, and so does the scrubwoman.
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The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say.
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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
Curley was famous for having insisted that the scrubwomen in city hall be given long-handled brushes, the better to spare their knees.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the last copyreader has gone home, before dawn and the scrubwomen have come, he stays there alone, writing the story of his life.
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He is a mild and scholarly Jesuit whose students are electricians, scrubwomen, plumbers, bus drivers, pipe fitters, and wire lathers.
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Samuel Insull did not press his stocks on opera singers quite so urgently as he did on his shirt-sleeved workers and scrubwomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ten thousand men working through the night had touched up the paint and staff and planted pansies and laid sod as a thousand scrubwomen washed, waxed, and polished the floors of the great buildings.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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