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laundrywoman

[ lawn-dree-woom-uhn, lahn- ]

noun

, plural laun·dry·wom·en.
  1. a woman who works in or operates a laundry.
  2. a woman who collects and delivers laundry.


laundrywoman

/ ˈlɔːndrɪwʊmən /

noun

  1. a woman who collects or delivers laundry
  2. a woman who works in a laundry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Gender Note

See -woman.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of laundrywoman1

First recorded in 1860–65; laundry + woman
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Example Sentences

Poor as he is, he didn’t forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him.

Her father had been born a slave; her mother was a laundrywoman.

I thought I noticed a certain caution even in his attitude to the large-bosomed laundrywoman who took the ship’s orders at Buenos Aires; and his comment on her charges had been of the weakest.

Robert the Devil from the top of his tower falls in love with the laundrywoman bleaching linen on the green, and in natural course William the Conqueror sees the light of day.'

Poor as he is, he didn't forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him.

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