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laundress
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Word definitions for laundress in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laundress \Laun"dress\, n. A woman whose employment is laundering.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
redirect laundry
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A woman whose employment is laundering. vb. (context obsolete English) To act as a laundress.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman , washerwoman , laundrywoman ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s; see laundry + -ess .
Usage examples of laundress.
I know from my mother, from the many people of varied knowledge to whom she bartered her services as a laundress so that I would be educated.
Truly, going from laundress to walking in the garden and eating dinner with the master of Trevelyan Hill was more than I felt ready to swallow.
I have already seen one woman nearly destroy my family, and I am not about to let an upstart laundress come in and do the same.
I was a laundress born out of wedlock, and he was the master of Trevelyan Hill, with a family to protect.
If Laundress had attacked Jeanne or Cady, Maggie would have had to fight her.
She was carrying piles of folded linen sheets given to her by Laundress, and she was doing her best to look like a slave.
It had taken Laundress a while to make her understand what they wanted of her, but now she seemed to feel obligated to give Maggie a tour.
After that I suppose I really should phone for a laundress to come and do the things in the trunks, phone for a man to come and wax the floors while the rugs are still up, phone for a window-washer .
As I came in, the laundress gave a massive sigh and pushed back her chair.
I burst breathlessly into the kitchen, where the laundress was calmly stuffing clothes into the machine.
I found her in the kitchen, where the laundress had finished with the sink, and she was stacking the breakfast dishes for washinga chore she always does first.
The laundress was taking things out of the washing machine and stuffing them in the dryer.
I wondered, and went on into the kitchen, which was deserted, the laundress nowhere in sight.
As I sat there, looking at the heap of dirty clothes in the middle of the floor, at the unironed things near the sink, wondering how I would ever get them finished and put away for next summer, the key scrabbled in the lock and the laundress came out.
While they were talking over this matter, Jane was called away to receive the linen from the laundress for the last time, and to bid her good-bye.