cook-general
Britishnoun
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(formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
Example Sentences
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A little while ago this praise would have made her glow sweetly, but now it tasted sour in her mouth; she did not particularly wish to be a magnificent cook-general, a magnificent charwoman.
From Married Life The True Romance by Edginton, May
And the household generally was in the hands of a trustworthy cook-general, who maintained a tolerable routine.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
I spoke so well that a cook-general offered herself to me as soon as the conference was over.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 by Various
She had come with him to Witching Hill Road as cook-general.
From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
At that moment the "cook-general" entered with a telegram.
From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus
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