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Noun(1) (2) a working woman who takes in washing

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(1) Looking out of the picture, presumably watching the cauldron as it boils more water, the laundress immerses clothes in a wooden tub frothed with over-running foam.(2) As a laundress , she supported us until our financial situation improved.(3) Across the river a laundress scrubs clothes on the water-steps.(4) This is a migratory anecdote, a printed version of which appeared in England in 1631, where it was told about a laundress who had apparently hoarded money for provisions for her wake.(5) Careless of his duties, a herdsman in a saffron tunic plays his pipe to a young laundress delectable in suntan and ultramarine blue.(6) In the Middle Ages the laundresses would drape the household sheets over lavender bushes to dry and to impart their fresh, clean scent.(7) Concentrated primarily as laborers, teamsters, deliverymen, waiters, servants, maids and laundresses , they held many of the lowest paid and least skilled jobs in the city.(8) Katalyn was one of the many laundresses required to make an army camp work.(9) He primarily painted the crew but like his laundresses , in no specifically individual way.(10) Records do show that free Black women served during the Civil War as nurses, laundresses and cooks.(11) The life of London laundresses in the mid-19th century is a major theme in a new exhibition at The Women's Library.(12) She thought of Maurice's shirts, the many she had seen pausing to help the laundresses .(13) Brown points out that many of the bank's loyal supporters were laundresses .(14) Two laundresses had taken pity on her and had shown her the way since they were headed that direction anyway.(15) Many of them provided indispensable services as laundresses , cooks and nurses.(16) Among women, common occupations included servants and waitresses, and seamstresses or laundresses , with smaller groups of laborers and factory workers.