Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man employed in a laundry; a man engaged in the business of washing and ironing clothes: as, a Chinese laundryman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man who follows the business of laundering.
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- noun A man who is in the business of
laundering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun operates industrial washing machine
Etymologies
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Examples
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The laundryman was a kind, wise old fellow, who paid his girls well, looked out for them, and gave them a good home.
My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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The laundryman was a kind, wise old fellow, who paid his girls well, looked out for them, and gave them a good home.
My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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The succeeding minute he had been bothered by the ex-laundryman's presence and by the compulsion of conversation.
Chapter 45 2010
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Born in 1905 in Los Angeles, Wong's father was a Chinese laundryman whose desire for his daughter to get married and settle down was eclipsed by her determination to gain fame and fortune as an actress.
George Heymont: Creative Cultural Cross Referencing (How to Link Stephen Sondheim to the Original Siamese Twins) George Heymont 2011
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Unskilled labour is the first to feel the slackness of hard times, and I had no trades save those of sailor and laundryman.
Chapter 25 2010
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Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman.
Chapter 46 2010
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Born in 1905 in Los Angeles, Wong's father was a Chinese laundryman whose desire for his daughter to get married and settle down was eclipsed by her determination to gain fame and fortune as an actress.
George Heymont: Creative Cultural Cross Referencing (How to Link Stephen Sondheim to the Original Siamese Twins) George Heymont 2011
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He could have quit his ship 10 minutes before the Chinese laundryman took the plunge and the outcome would have been neither better nor worse.
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The glamour of romance with which her imagination had invested him faded away in the cold light of fact that he was an ex-laundryman.
Chapter 34 2010
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Nonetheless, Hart Dyke stayed aboard the Coventry until the deck stood at a steep angle to the sea and everyone else had jumped overboard, including a Chinese laundryman who couldn't swim.
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