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Harriet Scott, who worked as a laundress into her later years, died in 1876.
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Melchor was a foreman on a sugarcane plantation, and Luisa was a laundress.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Several of them are familiar, such as the Seventh Cavalry laundress, a male who posed as a woman and was married to a man for years.
—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2025
Your mother used the napkin rings to lighten the load of the laundress (who, for all Miss Manners knows, may have been your mother herself).
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Melchor was a foreman on a sugarcane plantation, and Luisa was a laundress.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Several of them are familiar, such as the Seventh Cavalry laundress, a male who posed as a woman and was married to a man for years.
—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2025
Your mother used the napkin rings to lighten the load of the laundress (who, for all Miss Manners knows, may have been your mother herself).
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for laundress
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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