laundryman
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈlɔndrimən/
- Archaic
:
lavandero
- Because the mouth is a favorite breeding place for germs, if a Chinese laundryman had consumption, pneumonia, or other diseases, his mouth would be full of infection.
- a laundryman
Examples
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Yet, he stated, "every white man who has become a hand-laundryman has played his part in developing the entire laundry industry, because, in nine cases out of ten, he has put an alien out of business."
Academic text (2002) -
Greg the parachuting laundryman had been lying.
Fiction book (2001) -
Eventually, the American laundryman announced that he laundered shirts for nothing, and the Chinese followed suit.
Academic text (2002) -
Noticing that the Chinese laundryman did not buy food anymore, people found out that he ate rats in the establishment.
Academic text (2002) -
“to the British Medical Society, the pope and my Chinese laundryman.
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He was a laundryman.
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A gentleman in that region supposedly contracted leprosy from a collar ironed by a Chinese laundryman.
Academic text (2002) -
In 1904-1905, seeing the growth of Chinese laundries in Boston, an American laundryman stated that the city had become the dumping ground for diseased and infected Chinese.
Academic text (2002) -
On his rounds a few days later, he heard that Millard Fillmore had told his mates he'd personally cut up any of them who dared to steal a penny from the German laundryman.
Fiction book (1993) -
The laundryman quickly loaded the dirty clothes into the industrial washing machine.
Synonyms
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1.8
A person who washes clothes or sheets for a living
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7.3
A woman who washes and irons clothes for other people
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7.2
A woman who cleans other people's clothes for money
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8.9
A person who cleans other people's clothes for a living
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3.6
A person or shop that washes and irons other people's clothes
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4.7
A woman who washes and irons clothes for other people
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6.9
A woman who cleans other people's clothes, usually from her own home
A woman who washes other people's clothes for pay
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Laundryman is simply laundry + man. The part laundry comes from an old word that means 'to wash', the same idea you see in lavatory, so a laundryman is a man who washes and cares for clothes.