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- noun Plural form of
scrubwoman .
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Examples
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In 1929, while teaching philosophy at Columbia University, Lamont came to the aid of the 19 "scrubwomen" who cleaned Harvard's Widener Library.
Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011
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In 1929, while teaching philosophy at Columbia University, Lamont came to the aid of the 19 "scrubwomen" who cleaned Harvard's Widener Library.
Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011
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In 1929, while teaching philosophy at Columbia University, Lamont came to the aid of the 19 "scrubwomen" who cleaned Harvard's Widener Library.
Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011
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In 1929, while teaching philosophy at Columbia University, Lamont came to the aid of the 19 "scrubwomen" who cleaned Harvard's Widener Library.
Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011
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They took in laundry and boarders, labored in the garment sweatshops that crowded immigrant ghettos, or sought work as cooks, peddlers, or scrubwomen.
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Through the building crawled the scrubwomen, yawning, their old shoes slapping.
Babbit 2004
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She sat down on the chair in the antechamber, drained, as one of the scrubwomen came in to fetch the soiled linen, take away the blood-soaked sawdust tray, and scrub down the table and floor-hopefully (there it was again!), in that order, and not the reverse.
The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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We sure don't get any janitors or scrubwomen, as Martin and I know only too well.
No Great Magic Fritz Leiber 1951
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It is possible that you do not cultivate scrubwomen.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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Among the finest people in the world to talk with are scrubwomen.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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