How To Use Laundress In A Sentence
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Don't be overnice in your exactions; if she is even a fairly good cook, waitress, and laundress, you are indeed blessed among women.
The Complete Home
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And to reason it stood that the individual in immaculate white must possess many changes and command the labour of laundresses to keep his changes immaculate.
Chapter 15
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She thought of Maurice's shirts, the many she had seen pausing to help the laundresses.
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Across the river a laundress scrubs clothes on the water-steps.
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This is a migratory anecdote, a printed version of which appeared in England in 1631, where it was told about a laundress who had apparently hoarded money for provisions for her wake.
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Beneath the parasol was the little laundress in her Sunday clothes.
Original Short Stories — Volume 02
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Black women were signed on as nurses instead of laundresses or cooks only when they were to serve in all-black hospitals or relegated to nurse infectious white patients.
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Katalyn was one of the many laundresses required to make an army camp work.
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Careless of his duties, a herdsman in a saffron tunic plays his pipe to a young laundress delectable in suntan and ultramarine blue.
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Looking out of the picture, presumably watching the cauldron as it boils more water, the laundress immerses clothes in a wooden tub frothed with over-running foam.
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He is an impresario because he knows how to exploit a coincidence of finances, politicians, financiers, publicity and taste in order to make a laundress like Nini into a star.
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[Footnote 2: A seroon, Sp. _seron_, was a bale or package made up in an animal's hide.] [Footnote 3: Kegs of the blue powder used by laundresses.]
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
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Go take up these clothes here quickly; wheres the cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! carry them to the laundress in Datchet-mead; quickly, come.
Act III. Scene III. The Merry Wives of Windsor
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In the Middle Ages the laundresses would drape the household sheets over lavender bushes to dry and to impart their fresh, clean scent.
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The designation of laundress was nominal, however, because she did little in the way of washing.
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I said,'My wife was First Class laundress on the Cunarders.
MR STARLIGHT
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The life of London laundresses in the mid-19th century is a major theme in a new exhibition at The Women's Library.
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Liubov worked as laundress and cook while Degaev worked for a while for a chemical firm.
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Brown points out that many of the bank's loyal supporters were laundresses.
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Because of their lowly social status and outspoken behavior, the reputation of laundresses in late eighteenth-century Spain was problematic at best.
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Among women, common occupations included servants and waitresses, and seamstresses or laundresses, with smaller groups of laborers and factory workers.
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His wife was the daughter of a laundress, in whose house he had lodged thirty years ago, when new to London but already long-acquainted with hunger; they lived in complete harmony, but Mrs Hinks, who was four years the elder, still spoke the laundress tongue, unmitigated and immitigable.
New Grub Street
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The manner of it was thus: there cometh in to her the laundress early as other times before she was wanted, and the Queen according to such a secret practice putteth on her the hood of the laundress, and so with the fardel of clothes and the muffler upon her face, passeth, out and entereth the boat to pass the
The Abbot
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Two laundresses had taken pity on her and had shown her the way since they were headed that direction anyway.
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Concentrated primarily as laborers, teamsters, deliverymen, waiters, servants, maids and laundresses, they held many of the lowest paid and least skilled jobs in the city.
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Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics.
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The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Records do show that free Black women served during the Civil War as nurses, laundresses and cooks.
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As a laundress, she supported us until our financial situation improved.
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washwoman" instead of the "laundress," and, as did her father, called the man who took care of the grounds, ran the furnace, and drove the
The Squirrel-Cage
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Many of them provided indispensable services as laundresses, cooks and nurses.
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He primarily painted the crew but like his laundresses, in no specifically individual way.
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“And I promise you,” said the laundress, “my young master will stick nothing to call an honest woman slut and quean, if there be but a speck of soot upon his band-collar.”
The Abbot
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Another was to keep busy, which Emily did readily in her capacity as laundress, social secretary, and cooker of favorite meals.
TOGETHER ALONE
