单词 | charwoman |
释义 | charwomann. A woman hired by the day to do odd jobs of household work. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant who lives out > charwoman charwoman1596 schorerc1638 femme de ménage1826 char1906 daily1933 obliger1941 Mrs Mop1948 α. β. 1626 R. Bernard Isle of Man ii. 233 The Choare-woman, and her daughters Pocketing and Filch.a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggggg/1 The witches of Lapland are the divells chaire-women.a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 22 It is no good huswifery to hire Chair-women.1725 London Gaz. No. 6385/3 Elizabeth Maulkham..Charewoman.1774 Westm. Mag. 2 550 As a Chairwoman was cleaning out an uninhabited house in Blaney's Court.1596 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 116 All such yonge Wemen and others called Charr Wemen in this towne as are in noe service. a1600 T. Deloney Pleasant Hist. Iohn Winchcomb (1619) ix. sig. Kiijv To bee a chare-Woman in rich mens houses. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 142. ⁋6 Illicit correspondence with cottagers and charwomen. 1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. i. 136 He allowed no living soul, not even an occasional charwoman, to enter the house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1596 |
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