An Anglo-Indian term from the colonial period for a female domestic servant, particularly a cleaning woman or sweeper employed in a household.
An Anglo-Indian term from the colonial period for a female domestic servant, particularly a cleaning woman or sweeper employed in a household. The term reflects the caste hierarchies and gendered labour divisions of the colonial Indian household. Now archaic and replaced by more contemporary terms.
The matranee came each morning before sunrise to clean the floors and collect the ashes.
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(obsolete, India) A female house-servant.
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