cook-general

noun

1. (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework

Example Sentences

It was just four, and the cook-general, who ought to have been now in her housemaid's phase, was still upstairs divesting herself of her more culinary characteristics.-307- Marjorie opened the door.

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He got up, and with those elaborate efforts to be silent that lead to the violent upsetting of chairs, got himself out of the room and into the passage, and was at once rescued by the sympathetic cook-general, in her most generalized form, and given fresh tea in his study—which impressed him as being catastrophically disarranged....

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And the household generally was in the hands of a trustworthy cook-general, who maintained a tolerable routine.

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With the assistance of the "cook-general" she made the beds, and dusted the rooms, and laid the table.

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There was a ring at the bell, and the "cook-general" entered with a card held between a floury thumb and a buttery forefinger.

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