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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
washerwoman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And gabbing away like a washerwoman on every subject under the sun.
▪ He would look wonderful dressed as a washerwoman.
▪ Like it or not, you are in truth of the commonalty - the orphaned daughter of a poor washerwoman.
▪ She worked as a washerwoman for several households, beginning her work at dawn.
▪ Some were to be tenanted by cooks, washerwomen, labourers and grooms.
▪ Still more of the widows went out as chars or washerwomen, and a few minded children.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Washerwoman

Washerwoman \Wash"er*wom`an\, n.; pl. Washerwomen.

  1. A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. [Prov. Eng.]

Wiktionary
washerwoman

n. A woman who washes other people's laundry for payment.

WordNet
washerwoman

n. a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman, laundrywoman, laundress]

Wikipedia
Washerwoman

Washerwoman may refer to:

  • Alternanthera caracasana, a plant
  • a woman working in washing, a cleaner or charwoman
  • The Irish Washerwoman, a traditional and well known Irish jig

Usage examples of "washerwoman".

During my stay in Turin, no amorous fancy disturbed the peace of my soul, except an accident which happened to me with the daughter of my washerwoman, and which increased my knowledge in physics in a singular manner.

In his delight he would fain have embraced Gudrun, who, however, haughtily bade him refrain from saluting a mere washerwoman.

Beloved of her foster-child, she had become perpetually installed at Court, married to a wealthy Moor named Cabane, who was raised to the dignity of Grand Seneschal of the kingdom, whereby the sometime washerwoman found herself elevated to the rank of one of the first ladies of Naples.

Besides the washerwomen in the Clos, she always saw the same poor, ragged little children playing or sleeping in the grass.

The songstress then gathered up her hair, which hung very low, in her two hands and twisted it in the air, just as the washerwomen do.

He had told me the story of a washerwoman with a huge pile of freshly ironed washing on her head who was walking along the railway line when the Barberton train drew up beside her.

Besides the washerwomen in the Clos, she always saw the same poor, ragged little children playing or sleeping in the grass.

He would have her save out of her washerwoman and linendraper, and yet have a smart gown and go in a brougham.

Brunhilda Maler, the washerwoman those other dead crooks had holed up with down by the creek.

I will leave Vienna as soon as the washerwoman sends home my linen, but I will have the story printed in all its black injustice.

I had my trunks packed just as if I was going to leave London, excepting my linen, which I sent to my washerwoman who lived at a distance of six miles from town, and drove a great trade.

Rents was inhabited by men who worked in brickyards and coalyards, who did odd jobs, and by washerwomen and charwomen.

Cottages most remote were left for hours open and without guard, miscellaneous articles of the toilet were left about, trunks were not locked, waiters, chambermaids, porters, washerwomen, were constantly coming and going, having access to the rooms at all hours, and yet no guest ever lost so much as a hairpin or a cigar.

During my stay in Turin, no amorous fancy disturbed the peace of my soul, except an accident which happened to me with the daughter of my washerwoman, and which increased my knowledge in physics in a singular manner.

His father was a machinist in the slave pen of Alexander Burrell, and his mother was a washerwoman in the same slave pen.