noun
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a woman who collects or delivers laundry
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a woman who works in a laundry
Gender
See -woman.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of laundrywoman
Example Sentences
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Poor as he is, he didn’t forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Robert the Devil from the top of his tower falls in love with the laundrywoman bleaching linen on the green, and in natural course William the Conqueror sees the light of day.'
From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard
It was a hard miserable life, and each succeeding day only seemed to bring her nearer to the disastrous end prophesied by the mournful laundrywoman of Dudley Grove.
From Fan : the story of a young girl's life by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Poor as he is, he didn't forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him.
From Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May
In a wave of strikes in Western Pennsylvania, box makers, steelworkers, laundrywomen, and machinists all won higher pay.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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