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Washerwoman n. (pl. washerwomen)

A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.

(Zool.) The pied wagtail; so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. (Prov. Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Washerwoman" Quotes from Famous Books

... poor washerwoman, had seen better days; but the drunken dissipation of a husband, who was now in his grave, had reduced her to abject, despairing poverty. Her unfortunate marriage and persistence in clinging to the man ...

— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton

... the Sweet Gum Spring they saw Delphy, the washerwoman, standing in her doorway, quarrelling with her son-in-law, Moses, who was hoeing a small garden patch in the rear of an adjoining cabin. Delphy was a large mulatto woman, with a broad, flat bosom and enormous hands that ...

— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... work—no need of charity—man got to be blame shiftless if he don't get ahead." But now that the summer mask of leaves and grass was gone, Carol discovered misery and dead hope. In a shack of thin boards covered with tar-paper she saw the washerwoman, Mrs. Steinhof, working in gray steam. Outside, her six-year-old boy chopped wood. He had a torn jacket, muffler of a blue like skimmed milk. His hands were covered with red mittens through which protruded his chapped raw knuckles. He halted ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... will you?" said Schaunard, opening his bundle, "these are not hairs, they are shirts, and I am taking them to my washerwoman, who lives next door to the ...

— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger

... with a broad oval wicker-basket covered with a white cloth, which burden she bore round to the back door. Of course, she washed for his own household: he had not thought of that. In the morning sunlight she appeared rather as a sylph than as a washerwoman; and he could not but think that the slightness of her figure was as ill adapted to this occupation as ...

— The Well-Beloved • Thomas Hardy

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