washerwoman
Americannoun
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washerwomen
plural
noun
Gender
See -woman.
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Origin of washerwoman
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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
When I arrived at the Delft train station, I noticed a woman dressed in 17th-century washerwoman garb, quietly sweeping up the very modern entry hall with a broom made of a birch branch.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2016
A deep sink full of soaking whites told that the new washerwoman had stepped out only for a moment.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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 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
Still other women accompanied the army as “camp followers,” serving as cooks, washerwomen, and nurses.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
He sends studies for paintings to Émile Bernard: haystacks, fishing boats, a row of cottages, a sower with the setting sun, a harvest scene, and washerwomen at a canal with a bridge.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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