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- noun Plural form of
laundress . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
laundress .
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Examples
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Well, with regard to lovers the account book of their laundresses is the most faithful historic record as well as the most impartial account of their various amours.
Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Well, with regard to lovers the account book of their laundresses is the most faithful historic record as well as the most impartial account of their various amours.
The Physiology of Marriage, Complete Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Well, with regard to lovers the account book of their laundresses is the most faithful historic record as well as the most impartial account of their various amours.
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Similar cakes are also bestowed on the hangers-on of the establishment, such as laundresses, sempstresses, charwomen, etc.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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At bedtime they had given me a wooden tub such as laundresses use, and filled it for my morning bath.
The Princess Passes 1901
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Then he melted pitch and wax with sulphur, which he drank down as it flamed: I saw it flaming in his mouthe a good while; he also took up a thick piece of iron, such as laundresses use to put in their smoothing - boxes, when it was fiery hot, held it between his teeth, then in his hand, and threw it about like a stone; but this I observ'd he cared not to hold very long.
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Then he melted pitch and wax with sulphur, which he drank down as it flamed: I saw it flaming in his mouthe a good while; he also took up a thick piece of iron, such as laundresses use to put in their smoothing-boxes, when it was fiery hot, held it between his teeth, then in his hand, and threw it about like a stone; but this I observ'd he cared not to hold very long.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900
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Your premodern army will have cooks and laundresses and camp followers (aka prostitutes, for those unfamiliar with the euphemism).
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British regulations typically assigned six women to each 100 men as laundresses and hospital nurses, but most high commanders regarded them as nuisances.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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G2, 10 March is confusing the modern wringer with a box mangle, a huge, heavy contraption filled with rocks, used by laundresses to wring and smooth household linen.
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