What is "washwoman"

Usage examples of "washwoman".

According to lovingly nurtured liberal mythology, McCarthy recklessly hauled a semiliterate black washwoman before the committee and accused her of being a Communist.

On the evening of December twenty-fifth Christmas night in 1920, did you not attack a washwoman in Daytona, Florida, with a razor, and slash her face and neck so that it was necessary for her to spend two months in a hospital?

The four of them hid out with that trash washwoman, the late Brunhilda Maler.

Jacko shouted for help -- to the brass directing traffic, to the washwoman kneeling on marble steps, to the costermonger polishing her apples -- but his shouts wisped in the wind and were lost.

Della was my washwoman several years ago and I remembered hearing her tell something about hoodoes so we went to see Della to get all we could about it.

Nathan leaned close again, like a washwoman with a load of dirty gossip.