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  • noun Plural form of laundryman.

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Examples

  • At ten o'clock, while the hotel guests slept, the two laundrymen sweated on at "fancy starch" till midnight, till one, till two.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Triad lodges sprang up in a Chinese laundrymen of San Francisco.

    Batin Itam: The Li Blood Line admin 2009

  • People eyed your feet, hid the shame for the guys who lost to little yellow laundrymen, whose ancestors laid the tracks clacking below.

    The Long Walk Home Thomas Pluck 2011

  • In so far as they were out of the ordinary and were not mere common workingmen such as carpenters and laundrymen, they represented romance.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • Triad lodges sprang up in a Chinese laundrymen of San Francisco.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • On Tuesday night the new laundrymen arrived, and the rest of the week was spent breaking them into the routine.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • I just find small details about history to be fascinating and when I would talk to people over the years, they were always intrigued by the small details such as the Graf Spee having Chinese laundrymen aboard.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • I just find small details about history to be fascinating and when I would talk to people over the years, they were always intrigued by the small details such as the Graf Spee having Chinese laundrymen aboard.

    Charles McCain author of "An Honorable German" - Loaded Questions Author Interview 2009

  • The Kung children, according to Eleanor Roosevelt, gave the impression that they felt we… thought all Chinese were laundrymen and looked down on them, and they were anxious to dispell that idea.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • The boys run from a stereotyped Irish cop by dressing as stereotyped Chinese laundrymen, except for Curly, who pretends to be a buxom Yiddish-speaking Irish lass and emerge from a street elevator in costume with a laundry cart.

    Sidewalk Elevators Jacqueline T Lynch 2008

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