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单词 laundryman
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Definition of laundryman in English:

laundryman

nounPlural 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:

laundryman

nounˈlɔndrɪmænˈlôndriman
  • 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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