What is "scrubwoman"

Usage examples of "scrubwoman".

I paid the regular scrubwoman to let me use her keys, and I entered the chamber in this disguise.

Warmdollar had begun to earn a salary as scrubwoman, he was driven to accept.

From this evening, she is cook and maidservant together, scrubwoman and scullery maid as well.

With a scrubwoman, a cook and two manservants thrown in, the price is five hundred sesterces a month.

However, the old girl was too shopworn for further mischief and was spending her days of decline as a scrubwoman in the skyscraper.

English, and not even the lowliest scrubwoman was of any other color than white.

Some said that he escaped in the disguise of a scrubwoman and would return one day to lead resurgent hordes of derby and cigar.

Varfleet was beautiful now, the scrubwoman became a fairy queen, transformed as if by magic.

Halfway down the last flight, a scrubwoman heard his clattering approach and fled downward, and he nearly came to grief over the bucket and brush she left behind, as he heel-slipped down half a dozen wet stairs, barely managing to keep his balance.

As he charged into the entrance foyer, his brains a-reel, he heard the scrubwoman say something most unladylike, but he slammed the front doors open and broke out onto the pavement, where footsteps of passersby were revealed in an inch of fresh snow.

The marble corridors of the structure were peopled only by janitors and scrubwomen at this hour.

The scrubwomen shivered in their locker room as they told each other of the mad, mad light in his eyes as he'd muttered, with enormous gestures: "Of course—thirteenth floor.

The last customer was out, the lights low, the tables stacked, the scrubwomen down on their knees.

She turned her head and yelled at one of the terrified scrubwomen: "Keep away from that door, you!

It was now late night, long past closing time, and the lobby was deserted except for scrubwomen and janitors.