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charwoman

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Charwoman (noun) means a woman hired to do housework, in the past usually paid by the week for daily visits.

noun

A woman hired to do housework, in the past usually paid by the week for daily visits.

"This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything." — William Babington Maxwell (1918)

"But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage." — Katherine Mansfield pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry, Pictures (1919)

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