She worked as a domestic and a nanny for a wealthy family, then secured a job as a washerwoman chez Mère Fillioux.
"She caught that from the washerwoman," laughed Mrs. Sherman.
You were a washerwoman in your native place, weren't you, my dear?
One can scarcely believe that his father was a convict and his mother a washerwoman.
Out on the porch Big Mimy, the washerwoman, made herself heard.
“Perhaps his washerwoman has sent in her bill,” said Coxhead.
It was like a caricature of a washerwoman, and someone said, "What mimics they are!"
He never got used to the washerwoman, and she never got used to him.
"I know a washerwoman by the name of Dilly Danforth," returned Florence.
Her face was as brown as if it had been varnished, and as full of wrinkles as a washerwoman's hands.