Washing was done by hand in the laundry which employed a laundress and four assistants. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
To halt an army for the protection and comfort of a laundress was a highly ethical action. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Tennyson] Reference
When I was about ten our laundress was an African woman, very big, very dark, with a check handkerchief over her frizzy hair. From Wordnik.com. [Bliss, and Other Stories] Reference
"The maid and the laundress are the only ones I remember at Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls at Mount Morris] Reference
Proudly proclaiming herself the "laundress" of the house, the 37-year-old actress and talk show host tells. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrity Baby Blog - People.com] Reference
Eber since mah freedum, I'se wuk'd as a laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives] Reference
I wish I had a cook, and laundress, and a housemaid. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
She answered at great length that she was laundress at. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
The laundress is just a washerwoman, so far as I know. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
I commanded him to carry some clothes to my laundress. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Mother Ellen was laundress; she died first part of the War. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
For once again, to quote the laundress of the rue de Jouy. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
She is the great-grandmother of the superannuated laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
As a laundress of parts, Johnny was a jewel, but he could not mend!. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
"They ask us to 'hold out'," exclaims the laundress of the rue de Jouy. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
"Tell me what to do -- somebody tell me!" entreated the little laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
For seven previous years I bore the reputation of a first class laundress in Selma. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
Why does a laundress test the temperature of her flatiron by holding it near her cheek?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
But they little think of the sodden squalor that marks the den where the laundress stands. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
ROYAL WASHING POWDER — the laundress 'assistant; warranted not to injure the finest fabric. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
The best of all arrangements is to hire a laundress, who will do all the washing of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
One day last year our laundress sent her oldest boy, a lad fourteen years of age, on an errand. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 6, June, 1896] Reference
A vision of his death -- how he is plundered by laundress, charwoman, and undertaker; the phantom of. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
She has been preacher and teacher, physician and druggist, provider and manager, cook and laundress. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
In Newport News, Virginia, her mother was a laundress, her father left the family when Ella was three. From Wordnik.com. [Ella Fitzgerald: America's First Lady Of Song] Reference
Pulverize the Gum Arabic, and dissolve it in as much water as the laundress would use for the quality of starch indicated. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Tipperusalem, Oklahoma, on the 15th of March, 1912, he has for parents a clerk in the Eagle Bakery and a Lithuanian laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
In his own country he travelled with three tents, a dozen servants, as many horses, and always carried his laundress with him. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
He informed him that in Naples their laundress was said to be the last scion of one of the most ancient families in the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
PYLE'S BLUEING POWDERS, a splendid article for the laundress, to produce that alabaster whiteness so desirable in fine linens. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He and I went up to Sixty-seventh Street, where Mrs. Ranney was working as laundress, and after a little talk we came to the point. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
"I sent for you, John," she said demurely and without preamble, "to see if you have found a satisfactory laundress yet for the surplices.". From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
Some have been half-burned; one has been found half-digested in the stomach of a goat, and one boiled in a waistcoat-pocket by a laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
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