washerwoman
Americannoun
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washerwomen
plural
noun
Gender
See -woman.
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Origin of washerwoman
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June Brown, who has died at the age of 95, won her place in British hearts playing the chain-smoking washerwoman, Dot Cotton in EastEnders.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022
McCarty worked for 75 years as a washerwoman and donated the majority of her life savings to the university after her death in 1999 at the age of 91.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2020
Rigid social and ethnic demarcations begin to bend when the matriarch of a wealthy white family in New Rochelle, N.Y., provides shelter to an African American washerwoman who is scared and alone after giving birth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2019
For Sandy, the pressure to be respectable comes from Aunt Tempy, Aunt Hager’s oldest child, who avoids visiting her washerwoman mother in an effort to preserve the illusion of her middle-class upbringing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
“I am not a washerwoman, Nell. I am not a secretary or a bookkeeper. For your information, I am a detective. In fact, I am the first woman Mr. Pinkerton has ever employed as such.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Naman Ramachandran, author of Rajinikanth: A Definitive Biography, notes that Rajinikanth's fans range from Wall Street bankers to washerwomen in Tamil Nadu.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
Jim Downs: Laundresses, washerwomen, cooks, any number of things.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2023
In Atlanta, she spoke of the washerwomen who went on strike in 1881; in New York she spoke of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2020
In a speech in Atlanta in November, Warren said black washerwomen who led a successful strike in the 1880s for higher wages proved “the women stood together.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2020
“Some dance, some sing, one plays the pipe and one the drums. Good washerwomen too.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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