laundress

• “She will identify herself as a laundress, which is her part-time profession, but from the witness stand she'll be in a position to make direct eye contact with the D.A., the judge, and the members of the jury.”

  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

• “When I was about ten our laundress was an African woman, very big, very dark, with a check handkerchief over her frizzy hair.”

  Bliss, and Other Stories

• “The laundress was a long time gone, and Gilbert sat alone in the dismal little bedroom, where there had never been the smallest attempt at comfort since John Saltram had occupied it.”

  Fenton's Quest

• “To halt an army for the protection and comfort of a laundress was a highly ethical action.”

  Alfred Tennyson

• “Sterne has pleasantly remarked that the account book of the laundress was the most authentic record he knew, as to the life of Tristram Shandy; and that it was easy to guess from the number of shirts he wore what passages of his book had cost him most.”

  The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3

• “Mama refused to ask her to do cleaning or laundry, but Suliadora found us a "laundress" named Rosetty who came to our house and did this twice a week while Mama was ill.”

  BRASIL AS A GIRL

• “Note 24: For example: Catherine Shannahan's 1839 profit of 19s. 8d. from her work as a laundress was applied towards the account of Mathew Shannahan (1839 ledger, fol.”

  Gutenber-e Help Page

• “Proudly proclaiming herself the "laundress" of the house, the 37-year-old actress and talk show host tells”

  Celebrity Baby Blog - People.com

• “The maid and the laundress are the only ones I remember at Christmas.”

  The Girls at Mount Morris

• “It was her own sheer ambition and determination that transformed Lucille Le Sueur, the former laundress and chorus girl, into Joan Crawford, the embodiment of Hollywood glamour.”

  The Washington Post: Saving Crawford from 'Mommie Dearest,' and herself

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