washerwoman

noun

wash·er·wom·an ˈwȯ-shər-ˌwu̇-mən

ˈwä-

: a woman whose occupation is washing clothes : laundress

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Centuries later, French washerwomen — lavandières — spread their sheets over lavender bushes to bleach, dry and scent them. —

Lee Somerville, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024 The video prominently features a one-eyed cat, an olde-fashioned washerwoman, a guitarist and drummer wearing full-face white mesh masks, and of course fire. —

Leila Sales, SPIN, 7 May 2024 The laundress in her 1905 book The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle was inspired by her family’s washerwoman on holidays in Scotland; that tale, like others, was composed for real children in her life. —

Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024 Michael Louis Cusimano — who gallantly stepped into the show, unrehearsed, just days before opening night after an actor was injured — plays the doomed heir Charles Baskerville and his heir, American cowboy Henry Baskerville, as well as a washerwoman, police inspector, tobacco salesman and more. —

Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for washerwoman