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Definition of Laundress
1. Noun. A working woman who takes in washing.
Definition of Laundress
1. n. A woman whose employment is laundering.
2. v. i. To act as a laundress.
Definition of Laundress
1. Noun. A woman whose employment is laundering. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To act as a laundress. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laundress
1. [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Laundress
1. A woman whose employment is laundering. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laundress
Literary usage of Laundress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1851)
"The natural enemy of the laundress is the clerk; and as long as he wears ...
A barrister's clerk generally hangs himself and his laundress usually goes mad. ..."
2. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"That no searcher, during this time of visitation, be permitted to usel any public
work or employment, or keep a shop or stall, or be employed as a laundress ..."
3. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1812)
"She had charged a laundress with taking away some of the family linen. The mother
of the laundress was one of (he wild Irish, of bad character, ..."
4. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"These were the two sets of companion pictures— The Idle Mechanic and The Industrious
Mechanic, The Id/e laundress and The Industrious Cottager. ..."
5. American Druggist (1891)
"The Egyptian wine press was evidently composed of some strong textile fabric,
and compression was obtained by twisting—just as a laundress wrings a Camphor ..."
6. Some Experiences of a Barrister's Life by William Ballantine (1882)
"... is called a laundress, probably from the fact of her never washing anything.
I fancy that her principal employment was walking from my chambers to the ..."
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