laundress
3
7.3
- noun
- /ˈlɔndrəss/
- Archaic
:
lavandera
- She's the laundress here.
- work as a laundress
Examples
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Most working women were in some type of domestic service or associated work as laundresses and dressmakers.
Academic text (1993) -
You're a good cook, you're a good laundress.
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I should tell my laundress.
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We got a crazy old laundress.
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As to what actually happened in those beds, only his laundress knows for sure.
Blog text (30) -
Your laundress was found to be carrying letters in her washing.
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Still, the laundress insisted we had looked so alike and that was the reason for the mistake.
Blog text (22) -
I'm a laundress.
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My uncle had often intimated that everyone who worked at The Lord Nelson Hotel—bellhops, waiters, laundresses, chefs, desk clerks, cleaning ladies—were one big family.
Fiction book (1998) -
The laundress skillfully washes and irons the clothes of her clients each week.
Synonyms
124
1.6
A person or shop that cleans clothes professionally, often using dry cleaning
24
1.6
A person or shop that cleans clothes with chemicals instead of water
10
1.8
A person who washes clothes or sheets for a living
3
7.2
A woman who cleans other people's clothes for money
1
8.9
A person who cleans other people's clothes for a living
1
3.6
A person or shop that washes and irons other people's clothes
1
4.7
A woman who washes and irons clothes for other people
1
6.9
A woman who cleans other people's clothes, usually from her own home
1
4.3
A man who washes and dries clothes for a business
A woman who washes other people's clothes for pay
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word laundress comes from launder, which means 'to wash clothes', plus the ending -ess, an ending used for women. The root launder goes back to the Latin word lavare 'to wash', seen in lavatory, so a laundress is a woman who washes and irons clothes.