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Her own parents, Lee and Eva Renfrow, worked as a cook and a laundress.—Scott Simon, NPR, 6 Jan. 2026 In fact, the product’s popularity soared in the Victorian era, when the royal laundress credited her perfectly bright linens to the little blue additive, turning it into a household must-have.—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2025 Harriet Scott, who worked as a laundress into her later years, died in 1876.—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 See All Example Sentences for laundress