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.
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
It begins in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, with Ah Ling, a migrant worker in California who becomes the manservant and personal laundryman for a railroad baron.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 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
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