1873 16 Sept. 8/5 We have a specimen of this watch-dog policy in the case of a poor scrub woman.
1895 Jan. 556 A majority of the mothers work out as washerwomen or scrubwomen.
1942 E. Paul i. 2 Eugénie, a pale, brown-eyed scrubwoman not yet forty.
1973 ‘E. McGirr’ i. 6 A scrubwoman did what was necessary in the cleaning line.
1980 G. M. Fraser xxii. 428 There's one way of treating a suffragette who's a scrub-woman..and another of treating a peer's daughter.