What does cleaning-lady mean?

cleaning-lady

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

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"Their plan was deceptively simple. Thelonius’s babymamma Lilette worked as a cleaning-lady – but never for very long. As soon as any household felt the time was right to entrust her with a doorkey, Lilette felt the time was right to entrust it to Thelonius (who had it copied) and then quit the following day."

cleaning-ladies (plural)

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