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Definition of Cleaning woman
1. Noun. A human female employed to do housework. "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleaning Woman
Literary usage of Cleaning woman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Struggling for Ethnic Identity: Czechoslovakia's Endangered Gypsies by Rachel Tritt (1992)
"Last week I went to the nearby school where I knew that they needed a cleaning
woman. They wouldn't give me a job. They said the position was full, ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Thus, cleaning lady is at least as common as cleaning woman, saleslady as saleswoman.
But one says, normally, woman doctor. To say lady doctor is to be very ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1887)
"... cleaning- woman strode into the room, followed, at a distance which indicated
fear if not respect, by her husband, a retired, ..."
4. Public Health Nursing by Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"Money is saved in the wages of a cleaning woman, so the assistant superintendent,
drawing a salary of from twelve to fifteen hundred dollars a ..."
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