Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman employed in a laundry; a laundress.
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- noun A woman employed to wash
clothes (to dolaundry ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a working woman who takes in washing
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Examples
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Anyway, I have a reliable stay-out kasambahay who reports thrice a week and a laundrywoman who does the ironing.
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Now Guirola employs 30 people -- cooks, gardeners, maids, a laundrywoman, a driver, office workers, sculptors and bodyguards.
A SURVIVOR'S STORY 2008
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Rainier's mother, Princess Charlotte, was the result of a liaison between Prince Louis II and Marie-Juliette Louvet, the daughter of a laundrywoman who'd made her way to the nightclubs of Montmartre and become a "cabaret singer."
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Hey, Mr. A REAL AMERICAN, your laundrywoman just called to say that your brownshirt uniform is all starched up and ready for your pep rally tonight.
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Rainier's mother, Princess Charlotte, was the result of a liaison between Prince Louis II and Marie-Juliette Louvet, the daughter of a laundrywoman who'd made her way to the nightclubs of Montmartre and become a "cabaret singer."
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Now 35, she has climbed through the ranks of the service economy from laundrywoman to maid to a successful broker for illegal cleaning women.
An American Dream 2007
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Earning as little as $1.50 a day as a laundrywoman, Walker still managed to save enough money to educate her daughter.
Woman Making History #22: Madame CJ Walker (What if No One's Watching?) 2006
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Earning as little as $1.50 a day as a laundrywoman, Walker still managed to save enough money to educate her daughter.
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Robert the Devil from the top of his tower falls in love with the laundrywoman bleaching linen on the green, and in natural course William the Conqueror sees the light of day. '
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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Poor as he is, he didn't forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to
Little Women 1921
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