launderern.
/ˈlɔːnd(ə)rə/, /ˈlɑːnd(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈlɔndərər/, /ˈlɑndərər/ 1. One who launders (linen). Obsolete exc. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > one who washes clothes
laundera1350
lavendera1350
laundererc1475
lavendrya1483
washer1530
scourer1756
c1475 Cath. Angl. (Add. MS.) 210/2 Lawnderer, candidaria, lotrix.
1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Fvij Chamberers and launderers.
1598 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions (1675) 379 The Woman which is Landerer or Nurse shall be essoined.
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xi. 82 A Launderer may bee aswell a Male as a Female, by course of nature.
1666 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 185 The cook and laundrer comprehended in the number.
1876 W. H. Dixon White Conquest I. xvii. 171 Having their work done better and cheaper by..Chinese launderers in Jackson Street.
1884 Circular [The makers of an ironing machine shown at the Health Exhibition ask the support of] launderers and laundresses.
1889 Daily News 8 June 5/1 A laundress, or washerwoman [in America], is now ‘a lady launderer’.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] > person who
clipperc1330
rounger?a1400
washerc1450
money batterer?1518
launderer1632
tonsor1697
money-clipper1759
plugger1842
sweater1845
shorter1857
1632 D. Lupton London & Countrey Carbonadoed (1857) 277 Some of the men are cunning Landerers of plate, and get much by washing that plate they handle, and it hath come from some of them..a great deale the lighter.
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