charlady

Anglais

Étymologie

Composé de char (« corvée ») et de lady (« dame »).

Nom commun

Singulier	Pluriel
charlady \ˈtʃɑː.ˌleɪ.di\	charladies \ˈtʃɑː.ˌleɪ.diz\

charlady

(Vieilli) Femme de ménage.
- "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. — (Herman Cyril McNeile, Bull-dog Drummond, chapitre 9: In Which He Has a Near Shave, 1920)
- 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. — (Frank Swinnerton, Charladies, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New, page 163, 1949)
- 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. — (Owen Gibson, The Guardian, 8 décembre 2005)

Notes

Il peut maintenant être considéré comme inapproprié d’indiquer le sexe d’une personne à moins que ça ne soit pertinent. Cette terminologie peut maintenant être considérée comme désuète.