laundress in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for laundress in the English»Italian Dictionary

laundress [Brit ˈlɔːndrəs, Am ˈlɔndrəs] N

laundress

lavandaia f

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lavandaia

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

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

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If a laundress married a soldier, which happened frequently, he lived with her there.

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In addition, a number of officers brought their families, and a limited number of enlisted personnel brought wives who served as laundresses (typically four per company).

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She was a collusus, twice the size of laundress, yet she was muscularly well-proportioned in a steroid sort of way.

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

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An almost exclusively female occupation, laundresses worked 12 to 14 hours a day for very low pay in very hot buildings (which led to the origination of the term sweatshop).

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

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

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There were three sets of laundresses' quarters, in a large one-story house similar to the officers' quarters.

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