1) Archaic English phrase 2) Char 3) Cleaner 4) Cleaning lady 5) Cleaning woman 6) Domestic work 7) English society 8) Exclusively Anglo word 9) Exclusively Saxon word 10) Woman 11) Word of purely Anglo origin 12) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 1) Cleaner 2) Cleaninglady 3) Maid 
a cleaning woman, from the root for "chore."
A charwoman, char or (ironically or in genteel phrasing) charlady is an English house cleaner. The expression was formerly used in the United States prior to 1950. The word has the same roots as `chore woman`, one hired to do odd chores around the house. A char or chare was a turn (of work) in the sixteenth century, which gave rise to the word b.....
• (n.) A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Char'wom`an noun ; plural Charwomen . [ See Char a chore.] A woman hired for odd work or for single days. 
A woman employed as a cleaner in a house or office.
[n] - a human female who does housework
char noun a human female who does housework; `the char will clean the carpet`
a woman hired to do general cleaning, esp. in an office or large house.