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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 Others worked for officers as valets, while some women found roles as cooks and laundresses.—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025 Margaret Thomas joined George Washington’s Continental Army, working as a laundress and traveling with the soldiers.—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for laundress
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