sweeperess

• an aristocracy of functionaries, mobs of nobodies living upon everybodies; from Herr Von, Aulic councillor, and Frau Von, Aulic councilloress, down to Herr Von, crossing-sweeper, and Frau Von, crossing-sweeperess--for the women there must be better_-half even in their titles--you find society led, or, to speak more correctly, society consisting of functionaries, and they, every office son of them, and their wives--nay, their very curs--alike insolent and dependent. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843
• The little charity-girls at the Foundling, the sweeperess at the crossing, the poorest under-kitchen-maid in the servants 'hall, was happy compared to that unfortunate and now middle-aged young lady. —  Vanity Fair

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