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单词 cook-general
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Definition of cook-general in English:

cook-general

nounPlural cooks-general
British dated
  • A domestic servant who does both housework and cooking.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were domestic service agencies all over England who supplied scullery maids, kitchen maids, parlour maids, chambermaids, cooks general, cooks, butlers, housekeepers, nannies and companions.
    • With no career training, she took jobs as a cook-general in a variety of London houses.
    • In such homes the cook-general was frequently the only white servant employed.
    • Their reduced offers were hardly capable of eliciting the much-prized cooks-general and, more often than not, such employers found that their wages tended to attract 'generals' rather than 'cooks'.
    • 'You have a job in the window?' 'Yes, for an experienced cook-general.'
    Synonyms
    female servant, maidservant, housemaid, parlourmaid, serving maid, lady's maid, chambermaid, maid-of-all-work, domestic, drudge, menial
 
 
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