Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
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Examples
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There it is -- the hard-labored life of black mothers in 1963, women squeezed between the violent caprices of white Mississippi society and the dangerous rise of the civil rights movement.
Paul Kleyman: Give The Help and Black Working Women a Break Paul Kleyman 2011
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A tenement mother with her children and her hard-labored wash.
Archive 2008-03-01 Linda 2008
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A tenement mother with her children and her hard-labored wash.
More Work for Mother 8 -- 1890-1920: The Impoverished Other Half Linda 2008
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