HOUSEKEEPER

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Traducere în limba română

housekeeper substantiv

1. intendent, administrator.

2. guvernantă, menajeră, gospodină;

my wife is a good housekeeper soţia mea e o bună menajeră.

3. (rar) om primitor, gazdă care ţine casă deschisă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Finally, having drawn every other cover and picked up no scent, I tried my luck with the housekeeper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Then come and see my little housekeeper,” said Mr. Wickfield.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master was really absent, but had not the courage for it.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

There was no sign of the presence of anyone in the house, except Mrs. Porter, the old cook and housekeeper, who declared that she had slept deeply and heard no sound during the night.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

“I wish we could contrive it,” said she; “but I cannot think of any tolerable pretence for going in;—no servant that I want to inquire about of his housekeeper—no message from my father.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

So I addressed the housekeeper; asked her to show me a room, told her I should probably be a visitor here for a week or two, had my trunk conveyed to my chamber, and followed it thither myself: I met Bessie on the landing.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

She had some extra visits from the housekeeper, and her maid was rather hurried in making up a new dress for her: Sir Thomas gave orders, and Mrs. Norris ran about; but all this gave her no trouble, and as she had foreseen, there was, in fact, no trouble in the business.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“His housekeeper must be in his house, you know.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

As to the housekeeper, she had heard nothing on the night of the crime.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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