Word Finder - housekeeper

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Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.

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Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.

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She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.

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Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.

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Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.

It was as if I had left a cheerful housekeeper behind.

Maybe a housekeeper wasn't what he had planned on hiring in the first place.

He managed without a housekeeper before she came, and he could get along fine now.

Consuelo, their housekeeper had entered.

I am the housekeeper, not his mistress.

The old man and child were playing checkers in the comfortable den when a housekeeper called them to dinner.

Mrs. Porter, the housekeeper, came in weekly and Dean could guess the percentage of work performed by each.

The housekeeper, the old nurse, the cooks, coachmen, maids, footmen, postilions, and scullions stood at the gate, staring at the wounded.

I hired her as a housekeeper a few months ago.

You'd like to be his housekeeper all right - and more, I suspect.

I never knew you thought of me as anything but a housekeeper - an opinionated one at that.

He couldn't have asked for a better housekeeper, but the atmosphere between them had become strained.

I'm your housekeeper, remember?

All he wants is a housekeeper.

When you offered me a job, were you thinking of me in any way other than a housekeeper?

The former housekeeper, old Mavra Kuzminichna, had stepped out of the crowd by the gate, gone up to a cart with a hood constructed of bast mats, and was speaking to a pale young officer who lay inside.

Another former housekeeper claimed in November 2006 that the supermodel was a "violent super-bigot."

Unless - Maybe he was upset at being caught picnicking with his housekeeper.

Natasha moved a few steps forward and stopped shyly, still holding her handkerchief, and listened to what the housekeeper was saying.

Maybe he knew he was about to lose a good housekeeper.

So you hired a housekeeper with a professional attitude.

He was resigned to quietly reading a book until Mrs. Porter the housekeeper showed up a day early, accommodating a family wedding, and Dean's peace began competing with the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and Mrs. Porter's radio music, even worse junk than Fred's usual selections.

Might it have been one of those situations where Fred mentioned something to Cora Abernathy who told it to her second cousin, once removed, whose brother-in-law's best friend was seeing the sister of Arthur's housekeeper?

The wholesale jam manufacturers of the present day use this sugar; they boil the jam in vacuo and secure a product that will last a long time without deteriorating, but it lacks the delicacy and distinctive flavour of fruit preserved by a careful housekeeper, who boils it in an open pan with cane sugar to a less density, though exposed for a short time to a greater heat.

Of her piety and almost nun-like love of God and belief in His personal love for her, Edwards had known when she was only thirteen, and had written of it with spiritual enthusiasm; she was of a bright and cheerful disposition, a practical housekeeper, a model wife and the mother of his twelve children.

No. As a matter of fact, you've spoiled us both and we'll never be able to get along with our present housekeeper again.

The old man and child were playing checkers in comfortable den when a housekeeper called them to dinner.

Jobs at the lodge include chef, chef's assistant, tour guide, housekeeper, barman, gardener and general handyman.

Similarly, a man or woman may employ a housekeeper or servant of the other sex.

Synopsis On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners.

With the money they sent we were able to hire a housekeeper for the next three months and it saved my life!

Miss Pratt seems to have been a good choice of nanny come housekeeper.

It was I and Fire that lived there; and commonly my housekeeper proved trustworthy.

Jackson flirted shamelessly with Consuelo, making her feel like a sexy coed instead of a frumpy, middle-aged housekeeper.

A Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, elected by the people, was established in 1875, under a provision of the constitution requiring the General Assembly to establish maximum rates and provide against discriminations.4 The homestead of a housekeeper or head of a family, together with the rents and products of the same, is exempt from levy and attachment except to satisfy its liabilities at the time he acquired it.

He was mainly raised by a former slave housekeeper of whom he was very fond.

And you saw the old housekeeper, I suppose?

Matt tries to think of a nice way to fire the new housekeeper.

The servants placed meat for him, and the faithful housekeeper brought him bread to eat.

He tells her he's got a new live-in housekeeper to help look after the kids.

There was a resident manager and, possibly, also a resident housekeeper.

A nanny housekeeper can by employed live out (daily ), live in, on temporary or permanent basis.

She had a daily housekeeper stating that she " always hated housework " .

They have a young lodger, and also a housekeeper (their 24-year-old cousin, Susannah Buckell ).

A widower gets his elderly housekeeper to perform a striptease in his dead wife's clothes.

The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper.

A widower gets his elderly housekeeper to perform a striptease in his dead wife 's clothes.

Please leave explicit directions for the housekeeper, so she knows what needs to be done.

The average person may want to use public records, especially those concerning criminal background checks, to do something as simple as hire a housekeeper or babysitter.

A relative newcomer, Shelbie Bruce was thrilled to earn a starring role in Spanglish, a bittersweet drama that explores the culture clash between the rich and the poor, as well as between a Mexican housekeeper and her American employers.