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Definition of Charwoman
1. Noun. A human female employed to do housework. "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"
Definition of Charwoman
1. n. A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Definition of Charwoman
1. Noun. (chiefly British) A woman employed to do housework. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Charwoman
1. [n -WOMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charwoman
Literary usage of Charwoman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"This confidence, however, is never very well repaid, for it is seldom that the
charwoman gets more than 1*. 6¡/. a day, with her beer, tea, and sugar; ..."
2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"... she is ment, I have given you an economic argu- either a charwoman and I cannot
marry ment, I have given you a biological not marry me. ..."
3. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"... the benefit of the reading ; and the impression produced on the old charwoman
revealed itself in the remark with which she closed her account of it. ..."
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