dhobie

I crawled under snorting steam-shovels to drag out besooted negroes -- negroes so besooted I had to ask them their color -- while dodging the gigantic swinging shovel itself, to say nothing of "dhobie" blasts and rocks of the size of drummers 'trunks that spilled from it as it swung.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

To fetch his friend, dhobie [laundry man]: “Missie, here is dhobie-man.”

Archive 2009-07-01 Linda 2009

To fetch his friend, dhobie [laundry man]: “Missie, here is dhobie-man.”

Two Young English Girls in India Linda 2009

Imagine the worst of the fungoid-type skin diseases you have ever encountered-ringworm, dhobie itch, athlete's foot, Chinese rot, saltwater itch, seven year itch.

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

One night he was coming back very late and, before he saw where he was, suddenly came upon a crowd of witches standing under a hollow mowah tree at the foot of the field that the dhobie has taken.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

He must have clean clothes for Sunday, and though he can do a little rough washing on his own account, he needs the skill of the _dhobie_ for some of his wife's garments and his white Sunday suit.

India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

You passed the market-place, an open hall filled with the native stalls, where soldiers loafed around, chatting with the Visayan girls -- for a freemasonry exists between the Filipino and the soldier -- dickering with one for a few dhobie cigarettes, sold

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

There were the dhobie and bearer, the waterman with his goatskin waterbag, the washerman who washed my blue Chinese garments as white as his own, the syce who did not collect grass, the cook who sent me ten bad eggs in three days, and the Christian Madrasi, the laziest rascal in Bhamo, who early confessed to me his change of faith and the transformation it had effected in the future prospects of his soul.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

There were the _dhobie_ and _bearer_, the waterman with his goatskin waterbag, the washerman who washed my blue Chinese garments as white as his own, the _syce_ who did not collect grass, the cook who sent me ten bad eggs in three days, and the Christian Madrasi, the laziest rascal in Bhamo, who early confessed to me his change of faith and the transformation it had effected in the future prospects of his soul.

An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

-- The plant has much reputation in India in the treatment of skin diseases, and indeed its efficiency is great in the stubborn _Tinea circinata tropica_, known throughout the Orient as "dhobie-itch."

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891