Lexicographical Neighbors of Choreman
Literary usage of Choreman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Healthy Living by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Walter Camp (1920)
""That is the choreman who is going to attend to the furnace so that you may be all
... All the time the cook and the choreman and the butcher's boy and the ..."
2. Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home by Christine Frederick, American School of Home Economics (1919)
"In some households where there is no permanent worker, it often happens that the
homemaker looks to the husband as a kind of nursemaid, choreman or ..."
3. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"... "Mayst thou have gold and silver in thy bosom"; but to the choreman, who was
not a linguist, the mongrel phrase conveyed a sense of his delinquency. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Male, aged forty-four years, choreman, came to the outpatient department of the
Boston City Hospital, February 18, 1899. Family history is unimportant. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"A " choreman " is a handy man, a Jack of all trades. Their carpenter was dead,
and I am a handy man, so I took his place. Then made a few dollars doing ..."
6. Domestic Service by Lucy Maynard Salmon (1897)
"The same principle holds true in the case of the seamstress and the laundress,
the gardener and the choreman. It is difficult to make a deduction in the ..."
7. Modes and Morals by Katharine Fullerton Guerould (1920)
"the perfect choreman, the perfect gardener, and the perfect butler—with hours of
casual bookkeeping, plumbing, and carpentering. Even if he had the talent, ..."
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