The Collaborative International Dictionary
Washerwoman \Wash"er*wom`an\, n.; pl. Washerwomen.
A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
(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
n. (plural of washerwoman English)
Usage examples of "washerwomen".
At Creil, where we stopped to lunch, we left the canoes in another floating lavatory, which, as it was high noon, was packed with washerwomen, red-handed and loud-voiced.
She swept out the old rushes and scattered fresh sweetsmelling ones, laid a fresh fire in the hearth, changed the linens and fluffed the featherbed, emptied the chamber pots down the privy shaft and scrubbed them out, carried an armload of soiled clothing to the washerwomen, and brought up a bowl of crisp autumn pears from the kitchen.
The washerwomen kept away from some subjects, particularly ones like `husbands' and `sons'.
The washerwomen kept away from some subjects, particularly ones like 'husbands' and 'sons'.
We landed at a floating lavatory, where the washerwomen were still beating the clothes.
What I have against Zola is that he makes his washerwomen talk like real washerwomen, and when he leaves them he forgets to change his style.
A group of washerwomen in smocks and many-coloured caps were pounding dirty clothes in the shade of a lone tree.
As the speed increased, and the Toad could see on either side of him real fields, and trees, and hedges, and cows, and horses, all flying past him, and as he thought how every minute was bringing him nearer to Toad Hall, and sympathetic friends, and money to chink in his pocket, and a soft bed to sleep in, and good things to eat, and praise and admiration at the recital of his adventures and his surpassing cleverness, he began to skip up and down and shout and sing snatches of song, to the great astonishment of the engine-driver, who had come across washerwomen before, at long intervals, but never one at all like this.
He muttered under his breath words that should never pass the lips of either washerwomen or Toads.
Enough drink will make blind washerwomen and reeking pig girls seem as comely as you, sweetling.