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- noun Plural form of
janitress .
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Examples
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He got on well with janitresses and wash-women, with Indians and with the peasant women of foreign countries.
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He got on well with janitresses and wash-women, with Indians and with the peasant women of foreign countries.
Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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This drop into the cellars of the well-to-do gave me contact from another angle with janitors, janitresses, and servants.
From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910
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I encountered some rough work with janitors and janitresses in this region ” so rough, indeed, that I considered it a splendid missionary field; and when I found, crushed in the heart of that tenement region, a small Methodist Church, I became interested in its work.
From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910
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