laundress
noun
laun·dress
| \ ˈlȯn-drəs
, ˈlän-\
, ˈlän-\
Definition of laundress
: a woman who is a laundry worker
Examples of laundress in a Sentence
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Milda, her mother, took care of other people’s children and was a laundress in a hospital. — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, "Vija Celmins’s Surface Matters," 26 Aug. 2019 Her family had emigrated from Belgium to one of the poorest neighborhoods of Montmartre, where her mother worked as a laundress and her father a tailor. — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, "‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen’ Review: Rat-Girl of the Paris Opera," 16 Nov. 2018 Over three weeks of striking, the Washing Society expanded to include 3,000 strikers, including white laundresses (at the time, white women comprised less than 2 percent of washerwomen in Atlanta). — Anne Branigin, The Root, "These Are the Women of Color Who Fought Both Sexism and the Racism of White Feminists," 15 Mar. 2018 While the former laundress was elbowing her way through the medieval patriarchy, a young man named Raymond of Campagno was similarly rising in the king’s estimation. — Anne Thériault, Longreads, "Queens of Infamy: Joanna of Naples," 3 July 2018 Cecil was a clergyman and his sister, Linnie, was a laundress in a private home. — The Root, "Tracing Your Roots: Were My Southern Kin From Jamaica?," 8 Dec. 2017 Before long, the arrests spread from the tenants to their nannies, guards, laundresses, and stairwell cleaners. — Michelle Weber, Longreads, "The House Where Revolution Went to Die," 13 Oct. 2017 When the war ended, most of those women, who had served as pilots, snipers, mine-detectors, nurses, cooks, and laundresses, quietly went home and resumed everyday life. — Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, "'The Unwomanly Face of War' records Russian women fighting in WWII," 25 July 2017 There are a chef, a housekeeper, and a laundress, and two housemen/waiters; Basso's group also had a captained boat at their disposal day and night. — Lauren Lipton, Town & Country, "The Thrilla in the Villa: Inside the World of Luxury Vacation Rentals," 13 Mar. 2015These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'laundress.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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