washerwoman
Americannoun
noun
Gender
See -woman.
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Origin of washerwoman
Example Sentences
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She works as a washerwoman and says her son suffers from a disability which doesn't allow him to work.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025
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
And a washerwoman came on Monday and spent the whole day boiling the clothes in the dripping laundry shed out back.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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