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/ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/ · noun
(chiefly archaic or historical) A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation..
"Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.
MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.
He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion.
Use charlady when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Charlady means (chiefly archaic or historical) A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation..
Common synonyms include char, charwoman, Mrs Mop.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.
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