washerwoman
Americannoun
plural
washerwomennoun
Gender
See -woman.
Etymology
Origin of washerwoman
Example Sentences
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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
Each morning, Watson wakes from his spot on the floor to clean the house for his washerwoman employer before taking to the streets to sell water.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2017
Growing up in a Rio favela in the 1970s, Ms Assis started working as a nanny when she was just nine, and later found employment as a washerwoman and cleaning lady.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2016
The washerwoman pinned up one of Illyrio’s tunics, large enough to double as a sail.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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