laundress
Americannoun
noun
Gender
See -ess.
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Origin of laundress
Example Sentences
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Ethel Waters in 1949 became the second Black performer to score an Oscar nomination as an illiterate Southern laundress in “Pinky.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
When the rain finally returned earlier this year, Ms. Vaolina — the farmer turned laundress — joined the other climate refugees in the refugee camp as they danced in the rain.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
To that end, another bronze sculpture set in a reflecting pool, “Last Garment,” depicts a laundress at work.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
What is the difference between an honest and a dishonest laundress?
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2021
Alyce asked the kitchen maid skinning a pig in the manor yard, the laundress boiling great kettles of goose fat for soap, the carpenters fashioning a coffin for Old Ned, who had died that morning.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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