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
Folding the napkin might also indicate that your family did not have a laundress, so the napkins were used for several meals before washing, but that is hardly what one would call low-class.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 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
We could have afforded a laundress, she thought; it wasn’t fair.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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