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Definition of laundryman in English: laundrymannounPlural laundrymenˈlɔːndrɪmənˈlɔndrɪmæn A man who is employed to launder clothes and linen. Example sentencesExamples - At ten o'clock, while the hotel guests slept, the two laundrymen sweated on at ‘fancy starch’ till midnight, till one, till two.
- As a laundryman in Paris in 1920, he co-founded the French Communist Party, and in 1923 went as its delegate to the Communist International in Moscow.
- During the McCarthy period, Chinese laundrymen from New York and San Francisco were victimized.
- Once there, the laundryman had ‘done bad things’ to her.
- This result, unforeseen and unanticipated, led to the day's stonings and near lynchings of Chinese laundrymen unconnected to the alleged crimes.
- For many years before 1898, foreign residents had to have their clothes washed by native laundrymen.
- The men worked as market gardeners, carpenters, laundrymen, and in small business.
- What became of the girls, their families, the two Chinese laundrymen and their fellow Chinese Milwaukeeans?
- He was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920, and moved to Harlem where he worked variously as a stoker, an elevator operator, a laundryman and a ship painter.
- There would be no more talk of Chinese laundrymen.
- Interestingly, the Milwaukee Sentinel published some stories in the early 1880s that were unusually sympathetic to the city's Asian laundrymen.
- I had a French neighbour, a Bangladeshi plumber, a Pakistani laundryman, a Goan class teacher, and a Swiss-American benchmate in school.
- He mocks and tortures the Chinese laundryman, though privately his friend, along with the other boys.
Definition of laundryman in US English: laundrymannounˈlɔndrɪmænˈlôndriman A man who is employed to launder clothes and linens, or deliver them to customers. Example sentencesExamples - This result, unforeseen and unanticipated, led to the day's stonings and near lynchings of Chinese laundrymen unconnected to the alleged crimes.
- At ten o'clock, while the hotel guests slept, the two laundrymen sweated on at ‘fancy starch’ till midnight, till one, till two.
- Interestingly, the Milwaukee Sentinel published some stories in the early 1880s that were unusually sympathetic to the city's Asian laundrymen.
- There would be no more talk of Chinese laundrymen.
- The men worked as market gardeners, carpenters, laundrymen, and in small business.
- Once there, the laundryman had ‘done bad things’ to her.
- He mocks and tortures the Chinese laundryman, though privately his friend, along with the other boys.
- I had a French neighbour, a Bangladeshi plumber, a Pakistani laundryman, a Goan class teacher, and a Swiss-American benchmate in school.
- For many years before 1898, foreign residents had to have their clothes washed by native laundrymen.
- As a laundryman in Paris in 1920, he co-founded the French Communist Party, and in 1923 went as its delegate to the Communist International in Moscow.
- During the McCarthy period, Chinese laundrymen from New York and San Francisco were victimized.
- What became of the girls, their families, the two Chinese laundrymen and their fellow Chinese Milwaukeeans?
- He was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920, and moved to Harlem where he worked variously as a stoker, an elevator operator, a laundryman and a ship painter.
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