washerwoman
noun
wash·er·wom·an
ˈwȯ-shər-ˌwu̇-mən 
ˈwä-
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The laundress in her 1905 book The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle was inspired by her family’s washerwoman on holidays in Scotland; that tale, like others, was composed for real children in her life.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Michael Louis Cusimano — who gallantly stepped into the show, unrehearsed, just days before opening night after an actor was injured — plays the doomed heir Charles Baskerville and his heir, American cowboy Henry Baskerville, as well as a washerwoman, police inspector, tobacco salesman and more.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
The movie follows Walker, played by Octavia Spencer, from a balding, struggling washerwoman who was knocked down by racial and gender biases to her rise as an astute businesswoman and fierce activist with fabulous hair and a thriving company.
—Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
Cole was born Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole in the freehold township of Eersterust, on the outskirts of Pretoria, to a father who worked as a tailor and a mother who was a washerwoman.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
Not some fed up Thuringian washerwoman hocking loogies at the parish priest, but an individual who has been so gripped by an enfolding ideology that the boundary between possessor and possessed is erased.
—Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
My mother was a washerwoman, and my father was a construction painter.
—Beatriz Miranda, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2022
The live model for the washerwoman and the standing woman was Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, a writer and teacher who is one of Leigh’s closest friends.
—The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
Her mother, Rosária Maria da Conceição, was a washerwoman; her father, Avelino Gomes, was a bricklayer who played guitar and liked samba music.
—Michael Astor, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Michael Louis Cusimano — who gallantly stepped into the show, unrehearsed, just days before opening night after an actor was injured — plays the doomed heir Charles Baskerville and his heir, American cowboy Henry Baskerville, as well as a washerwoman, police inspector, tobacco salesman and more.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
The movie follows Walker, played by Octavia Spencer, from a balding, struggling washerwoman who was knocked down by racial and gender biases to her rise as an astute businesswoman and fierce activist with fabulous hair and a thriving company.
—Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
Cole was born Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole in the freehold township of Eersterust, on the outskirts of Pretoria, to a father who worked as a tailor and a mother who was a washerwoman.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
Not some fed up Thuringian washerwoman hocking loogies at the parish priest, but an individual who has been so gripped by an enfolding ideology that the boundary between possessor and possessed is erased.
—Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
My mother was a washerwoman, and my father was a construction painter.
—Beatriz Miranda, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2022
The live model for the washerwoman and the standing woman was Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, a writer and teacher who is one of Leigh’s closest friends.
—The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
Her mother, Rosária Maria da Conceição, was a washerwoman; her father, Avelino Gomes, was a bricklayer who played guitar and liked samba music.
—Michael Astor, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
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washerwoman
noun
wash·er·wom·an
ˈwȯsh-ər-ˌwu̇m-ən
ˈwäsh-
: a woman who takes in washing
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