Examples of laundress in a Sentence
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The residence comes with a dedicated staff of six: a butler, a chef, a laundress, two gardeners, and two housekeepers.
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Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
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.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) The Daniels rightfully won big at last year’s Oscars for this ambitious, moving, and exceedingly exciting genre-bender, which stars Michelle Yeoh as a put-upon laundress who gets a chance to see where her life could have gone.
—EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
In New York City, the press has documented the rise of private kitchen staff, rotating teams of nannies, and in-home laundresses who will devote half an hour to ironing a single shirt.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
His father was head janitor for an apartment building near Bryn Mawr College, and the family, including his mother, Rose (Banks) Becton, a housekeeper and laundress, lived in a basement apartment.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
From the 1850s onward, the artist was enthralled by the Parisian laundress—a working-class woman frequently seen washing and ironing goods and transferring heavy baskets in the bustling city streets.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023
Kelley looks at the history of her own working-class ancestors, as well as the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who made up the world of Black labor.
—Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2023
His mother, Maria Ivanovna Kokurina, was a laundress and house cleaner, and his father, Mikhail Yakovlevich Zaitsev, was an entertainer and a poet before he was drafted into the Soviet Army during World War II.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 May 2023
Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
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.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) The Daniels rightfully won big at last year’s Oscars for this ambitious, moving, and exceedingly exciting genre-bender, which stars Michelle Yeoh as a put-upon laundress who gets a chance to see where her life could have gone.
—EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
In New York City, the press has documented the rise of private kitchen staff, rotating teams of nannies, and in-home laundresses who will devote half an hour to ironing a single shirt.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
His father was head janitor for an apartment building near Bryn Mawr College, and the family, including his mother, Rose (Banks) Becton, a housekeeper and laundress, lived in a basement apartment.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
From the 1850s onward, the artist was enthralled by the Parisian laundress—a working-class woman frequently seen washing and ironing goods and transferring heavy baskets in the bustling city streets.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023
Kelley looks at the history of her own working-class ancestors, as well as the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who made up the world of Black labor.
—Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2023
His mother, Maria Ivanovna Kokurina, was a laundress and house cleaner, and his father, Mikhail Yakovlevich Zaitsev, was an entertainer and a poet before he was drafted into the Soviet Army during World War II.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 May 2023
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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