scrubwoman
noun
a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
scrubwomen
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pluralof scrubwoman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He lives in an empty barnlike structure which has not been troubled by scrubwomen for months.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The only grownups in the audience were the theatre's three scrubwomen, delegated to the task of suppressing unnecessary Hogmanay enthusiasms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alumnus Lamont then organized the Harvard Scrubwomen Fund, raised $3,880, portioned it out last Christmas to the 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
