laundress
Americannoun
noun
Gender
See -ess.
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Origin of laundress
Example Sentences
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His father was a roofer, and his mother was a laundress.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023
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
Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the son of a schoolteacher and a laundress, was born Oct.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2021
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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