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laundress [Brit ˈlɔːndrəs, Am ˈlɔndrəs] N

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blanchisseuse f

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She played largely uncredited roles, such as secretaries, laundresses and frontierswomen. en.wikipedia.org

Servants living at the house in the 1860 census were a butler, cook, laundress and chambermaid. en.wikipedia.org

For the first time, women were able to serve their country, though not in a combat capacity, without serving as a nurse or laundress. en.wikipedia.org

A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. en.wikipedia.org

She served as a pastry cook and laundress, with duties including meat preservation and the bottling of cider. en.wikipedia.org

On the way, he met various people -- a laborer, a shepherd, a beadle, some laundresses -- and asked whether they had seen the children. en.wikipedia.org

In his informal shingled cottages, there were usually double corridors for separate circulation, so that a guest never bumped into a laundress with a basket of bed linens. en.wikipedia.org

However, the law specifically allowed women to remain with the army if they fell into one of two categories: laundresses (blanchisseuses) and vivandires. en.wikipedia.org

Brooks partially financed her studies by working as a dishwasher, laundress, a library assistant, and nurse's aide. en.wikipedia.org

Four were women, one of whom tended to his household, and the other three were hired out as laundresses or house servants. en.wikipedia.org

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