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On the third day, just after lunch, the hands were recalled from the fields, the washwomen and cooks and stable hands interrupted from their tasks, the house staff diverted from its maintenance.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

He tried two of the regular washwomen, Elsie Doyle and Peleg Carpenter's wife, and they did 'em up just dreadful.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

One engineer with a government certificate could have saved the clerks, stenographers, widows, washwomen, and orphans of America fifteen million dollars at the cost of, say, five thousand.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various

There was always two washwomen, a cook, some hands to help her, two sewin' women, a house girl, an' some who did all the weavin' an' spinnin'.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various

Also, as at present, the washwomen were the despair of careful housekeepers.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William