charladies

It stood, decrepit but immensely elegant, among the drunken olives, and looked rather like an eighteenth-century exquisite reclining among a congregation of charladies.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Two charladies were talking and one said to the other: "Why doesn't this 'ere' itler fellow get married and settle down?"

What Is The British Point of View 1939

(which still manages somehow to carry on) where I had so often interviewed exacting cooks, incompetent lady-helps, untrained young women with lipstick and a high value for themselves, and daily charladies reluctantly prepared to oblige.

Crime On the Coast Carr, John Dickson 1984

Three messenger-boys, four typists, and a gentleman in full evening-dress, who obviously possessed or was friendly with someone who possessed a large cellar, formed the nucleus of it; and they were joined about the time when Arthur addressed the ball in order to play his nine hundred and fifteenth by six news-boys, eleven charladies, and perhaps a dozen assorted loafers, all speculating with the liveliest interest as to which particular asylum had had the honour of sheltering Arthur before he had contrived to elude the vigilance of his custodians.

The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

You don’t suffer from charladies, I suppose, Lord Peter?”

The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928