Quaint expression of earlier days relative to female servants performing chores of scrubbing floor on hands and knees.
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Matilda worked for the Bloomfelds for twenty years, retired at age sixty and spent her declining years in a wheel chair in a rest home.

Submitted by WerterBuch on October 10, 2015

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