The writer of the verses of ardent poetry written on the paper brought to me by the washerman was my cherished friend, a youth from far-away Bokhara, Abdul by name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

Company's vocabulary a 'washerman' was a man who 'bleached' new-made cloth; and the Company employed a number of bleachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Madras] Reference

The washerman is a Bhaiyya we call Dhobhi.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 March 11 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1] Reference

The offerings are appropriated by the village washerman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

A washerman who wears another's dress shall be fined three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya] Reference

White House to your Chinese washerman in his laundry, is accessible to all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

Here the village barber will shave Chamars and the washerman will wash their clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Accordingly she, being pregnant, had a miscarriage; but the washerman returned home with his donkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

They have never been separately classified at the census but always amalgamated with the Dhobi or washerman caste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

In Singonahully he entered into friendly relations with the old village washerman, who was nearly blind, and helped him in his work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Daniel] Reference

That washerman who does not know how to wash away the filth of cloth without taking away its dye, is very unskilful in his profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The equality he felt in the class with his classmates seemed to no longer stand when he went to their homes as the son of a washerman and washerwoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manish gives hope for those in need of healthcare] Reference

The ordinary village menials, as the barber and washerman, will not work for them, and services of this nature are performed by men of their own community.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

We have had six nurses, five dressers, one wardmaster, one washerman, and eighteen orderlies, or thirty-two in all, who actually came in contact with the sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference

When the first child of a rich man is born, the midwife, barber and washerman go round to all his friends and relations to announce the event and obtain presents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

If he was not attending to needy patients in Lucknow today he would most likely have been a washerman in his birth place, Ballia district of eastern Uttar Pradesh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manish gives hope for those in need of healthcare] Reference

That Kshatriya who knows how to correct the faults of behaviour of the other orders and to wash them clean like a washerman is really their father and deserve to be their king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

That person among Brahmanas or Kshatriyas or Vaisyas who, having fallen away from the proper duties of his order, has become a Sudra, is truly to be compared to such a washerman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

"It means a washerman, I suppose," observed Price.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Own] Reference

Dhobi or washerman, are considered to some extent impure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

The washerman spreads a sheet on the ground on which the boy and girl sit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

The village barber will not shave them, nor the washerman wash their clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

They then bathe and present their clothes to the washerman, putting on new clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

For instance, the caste barber and washerman are commanded to serve him and his no longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [India, Its Life and Thought] Reference

Mr. Pandian states, the village barber, like the washerman, is known as the son of the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

Madras the barber and his wife, and the washerman and his wife, are known as the son and daughter of the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

As luck would have it, after drifting hither and thither, it reached a distant shore where a washerman was at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Punjab] Reference

The barber washes the feet of the boy and girl and places vermilion on the foreheads of the guests; the washerman spreads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

After a death has occurred at a Kunbi's house, the impurity is not removed until the barber and washerman have eaten in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

At a betrothal in the great Kunbi cultivating caste of the Marathas, the services of the barber and washerman must be requisitioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

At the wedding feast the barber, the washerman and the Bari or personal servant also eat with the guests, though sitting apart from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

Police said the girl belonged to a washerman community, considered a lower caste, whereas the boy came from the slightly higher dairymen Yadav community.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Campaign Against Honour Killings] Reference