"chimney-sweep" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…] he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise-bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May day.",
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          "ref": "1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Street-Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume I (The London Street-folk. Book the First.), London: [George Woodfall], →OCLC, page 4, column 2:",
          "text": "The Cleansers—such as scavengers, nightmen, flushermen, chimney-sweeps, dustmen, crossing-sweepers, “street-orderlies,” labourers to sweeping-machines and to watering-carts.",
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          "ref": "1867, “F. R.”, “Notes on Trapping and Wood-Craft”, in S[ewell] Newhouse, edited by J[ohn] H[umphrey] Noyes and T. L. Pitt, The Trapper’s Guide; A Manual of Instructions […], 2nd edition, Wallingford, Conn.: […] Oneida Community. […] the Community Press, page 115:",
          "text": "It is supposed to climb like the old chimney-sweeps, being found with its back braced against the side of the hollow.",
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