noun
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a man who collects or delivers laundry
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a man who works in a laundry
Gender
See -man.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of laundryman
Example Sentences
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Wong was born in 1905 in Chinatown, the daughter of a laundryman who ran a shop on Figueroa Street.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
One Republican newspaper in New York declared its opposition to the ruling: "The law that would jail any laundryman for having an underfed horse should jail him for having an underfed girl employee."
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2020
The protagonist is an immigrant laundryman named Wong Wan-Lee, who comes to understand New York through the eyes of his only real friend, a naïve, half-black, half-Chinese woman named Pearl Chang.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2016
In Dodge, they range from cowboys and prostitutes to businessmen and society ladies, from lawmen and their women to bankers and merchants, from a Jesuit priest to a Chinese laundryman.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2011
Melon Head was a laundryman in Oakland—he had gotten that name because he had gone Completely bald in his younger days.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
The next year, the court ruled that the targeted enforcement of the ordinance violated the constitutional rights of Yick Wo and Chinese laundrymen like him.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2023
Chinese residents lost their lawsuit for damages, but the year after the massacre, most Chinese laundrymen refused to pay their city business license fees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
I loved this 20-minute video on the way laundrymen in Mumbai, India, use posters, more commonly deployed by political candidates, to advertise their businesses.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Later, laundrymen would congregate after hours at his herb store.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
Many are common laborers, laundrymen, and small merchants.
From As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home by Henry Pearson Gratton
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