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Definition of Laundrywoman
1. Noun. A working woman who takes in washing.
Definition of Laundrywoman
1. Noun. A woman employed to wash clothes (to do laundry). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laundrywoman
Literary usage of Laundrywoman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Legislative Documents Compiled by Order of the ... General Assembly by Iowa General Assembly (1906)
"Asst. Laundryman, with board mem Asst. Laundryman, with board mem. Laundryman,
with board civ laundrywoman, with board civ ..."
2. The Making of Carlyle: An Experiment in Biographical Explication by Robert S. Craig (1908)
"... busy and occupied day and night with family cares, cook, servant, housekeeper,
laundrywoman for a growing family, with that family constantly increasing ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1889)
"... skin being for the time converted, as she describes it, into the similitude
of that of a laundrywoman. I have had six cases in all, and in none has it ..."
4. A Surgeon in Khaki by Arthur Anderson Martin (1915)
"The laundrywoman duly appeared and boiled all these articles, and the sisters
ironed them for us. On the afternoon of the ironing the Mother Superior and ..."
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