What does laundress mean?
Laundress means Synonym of washerwoman..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Synonym of washerwoman..
I tell thee ſhameleſſe girle, Thou ſhalt be Landreſſe to my waiting maide:
2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, Book Three, p. 260, Mama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days.
‘Sir,’ said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, ‘I’ve laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself. […]’
And oh, my dears, real washing is very different work from the dolls’ laundressing—standing round a wash-hand basin placed on a nursery chair, and wasting ever so much beautiful honey-soap in nice clean hot water […]
Use laundress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Laundress means Synonym of washerwoman..
Common synonyms include washerwoman, washwoman, laundrywoman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I tell thee ſhameleſſe girle, Thou ſhalt be Landreſſe to my waiting maide:
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