英和和英

名詞

window-washer (複数形 window-washers)

1. Alternative form of window washer.
   • 1867 March 13, Chicago Tribune, volume XX, number 277, Chicago, Ill., page [4], column 1:

     Yesterday morning a window-washer, employed at the Tremont House, lost his footing and fell from a second-story window on Dearborn street to the sidewalk.

   • 1989 December 6, “Teenager back home after SkyDome plunge”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F-1, column 6:

     Two window-washers died Oct. 23 after a 10-metre fall when the equipment carrying them, commonly known as a cherrypicker, tipped.

   • 2022 June 8, Neil Genzlinger, “Martha Myers, 97, taught dancers how to move and more”, in The Buffalo News, page B5, column 5:

     She participated in some memorable feature segments, including by joining some window-washers 20 stories up and by riding on the shoulders of Meadowlark Lemon, the Harlem Globetrotter, to dunk a basketball.