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Others worked for officers as valets, while some women found roles as cooks and laundresses.
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Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
Margaret Thomas joined George Washington’s Continental Army, working as a laundress and traveling with the soldiers.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
But the winning touchdown was scored by a rookie running back named Ted Dean, whose mother had been my step-grandfather’s laundress.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
It became known as the Littlehampton libels, with the culprit revealed to be a 30-year-old laundress named Edith Swan, who tried to pin the blame on her neighbor, Rose Gooding, until she was found out.
—Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
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Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
Margaret Thomas joined George Washington’s Continental Army, working as a laundress and traveling with the soldiers.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
But the winning touchdown was scored by a rookie running back named Ted Dean, whose mother had been my step-grandfather’s laundress.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
It became known as the Littlehampton libels, with the culprit revealed to be a 30-year-old laundress named Edith Swan, who tried to pin the blame on her neighbor, Rose Gooding, until she was found out.
—Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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