单词 | femme de ménage |
释义 | femme de ménagen. Chiefly in French contexts: a woman employed, typically on a daily basis, as a cleaner (and occasionally to undertake other domestic tasks) in a house. 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 1826 R. C. Dillon Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxf. 12 The Lord Mayor had been filling up this interval with instructions to the femme de ménage, and other household officers. 1870 E. G. E. Ward Jrnl. 16 Nov. in Outside Paris (1871) 41 To cook for them..I am obliged to hire a femme de menage. c1903 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 10 At this studio there is a femme de menage that does your room. 1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill lxxxvi. 26 ‘Le prussien c'est un chic homme.’ Said the aged femme de ménage with four teeth out. 2009 Independent on Sunday 23 Aug. 67/1 The femme de ménage appears twice a week but must be under strict instructions not to disturb the resident creepies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826 |
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