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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 Another must-see stop is the Rose Cottage, the former home of Adeline Rose, a woman who was born into slavery, yet managed to save enough money from her job as a laundress to construct this house for herself and her children.—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2025 Sophie was working as a laundress at a federal boarding school in Pine Ridge when federal troops massacred some 250 Native people at nearby Wounded Knee in 1890.—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 Degas is doing his milliners and laundresses and ballet dancers.—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for laundress
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