laundress
- n a working woman who takes in washing
- As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servantshouseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress.
- She is a young laundress (resolutely played by Simone Simon) in a coachload of bourgeois and their wivesnatural-born snobs, cowards, ingrates, sycophants and collaborationists .
- But, he typically added, one Paris laundress with bare arms "is worth it all for such a pronounced Parisian as I am.