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A narrow lane in Mumbai city's upmarket Colaba area opens up to a patch of land filled with small concrete cubicles - nooks washermen use to clean and dry the city's laundry.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

The settlement is largely inhabited by washermen and their families, many of whom live and work there.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

During the Crimean War many of the washermen attending to the washing of the French hospitals were attacked by cholera.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

This class evidently possessed privileges highly esteemed, for their ranks were recruited from all classes of artisans in the towns, cooks, brewers, gardeners, washermen, and even scribes.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

"Who are you, my Herr?" cried the amber merchant, "that you issue orders here, and withhold my washermen from their work?"

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von