Definitions

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  • noun A maid responsible for laundry.

Etymologies

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laundry +‎ maid

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Examples

  • Lisbeth having set the laundrymaid to work, was once more her usual smiling self, and was quite pleased to hear the news.

    Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

  • In my youth, the pursuit was associated exclusively with laundry-workers, but in later years I realised that, except in that small proportion of houses where servants are kept, every woman is a laundrymaid, and that in every house throughout the land, or indeed throughout the world, the cleaning and the washing are done mainly by women, by wives and mothers, their girl children or women servants.

    Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

  • It was Bella the laundrymaid -- she saw him from the window, and had a turn.

    Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • "I know my business, and do not fear service; there are more places than parish churches: if you wash at home, you should have a laundrymaid; if you give entertainments, you must have a cookmaid; if you have any needlework, you should have a chambermaid; and such a house as this is enough for a housemaid, in all conscience."

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • I suppose it's not your doing that she's been degraded from laundrymaid to washing dishes in the scullery?

    A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • 'What a strange creature that Gerasim is!' piped a fat laundrymaid;

    The Torrents of Spring Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • "What a strange creature that Gerasim is!" piped a fat laundrymaid;

    Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1830

  • ‘What a strange creature that Gerasim is!’ piped a fat laundrymaid; ‘fancy, upsetting himself like that over a dog ....

    Mumu 2006

  • I suppose it’s not your doing that she’s been degraded from laundrymaid to washing dishes in the scullery?

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

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