washwomann.
Now U.S.
= washerwoman n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > one who washes clothes > a woman
washesterc900
laundress1555
washwoman1590
washmaidc1610
buck-washer1611
laundrya1616
laundry-maid1632
washerwoman1632
washing-woman1782
washer-wife1800
lavandera1841
laundry-woman1863
washer-maiden1876
washer-girl1907
1590 Dewsbury Parish Ch. Reg. 28 Sept. Massoley a maid of Mr. Rowland Owans a washwoman buried.
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xiv. 78 You would much sooner be taken for her wash-woman.
1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 81 121 Among the lost plays of Sophocles, are enumerated..Nausicaa, or the Wash-women (πλύντριαι).
1852 C. W. Day Five Year's Resid. W. Indies II. 297 The Spanish flounces of the negro wash-women.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 72 ‘Is you come from Colonel Gillin's, massa?’ asked the wash-woman.
1912 H. S. Canfield Squirrel Cage i. iv. 36 She spoke of the ‘washwoman’ instead of the ‘laundress’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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