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laundress

American

[lawn-dris, lahn-] / ˈlɔn drɪs, ˈlɑn- /

noun

a woman whose work is the washing and ironing of clothes, linens, etc.

laundress British

/ ˈlɔːndrɪs /

noun

a woman who launders clothes, sheets, etc, for a living

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Gender

See -ess.

Other Word Forms

underlaundress

noun

Etymology

Origin of laundress

1540–50; obsolete launder launderer ( see launder) + -ess

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laundress

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

Reid was born Dec. 2, 1939, the son of an alcoholic hard-rock miner who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

Her father was later a caretaker and her mother a laundress and the owner of a boardinghouse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2021

What is the difference between an honest and a dishonest laundress?

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 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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