Definition of washerman in English:
washerman
nounPlural washermenˈwɒʃəman
(especially in South Asia) a man whose occupation is washing clothes.
Example sentencesExamples
- We had this one washerman when I was girl who would constantly steal my knickers.
- Although the Council made attempts to improve the quality of the service provided by native washermen, the laundrymen did not change much in the washing process.
- The washermen used to dig burrows effortlessly at Vannandurai at Besant Nagar for water.
- When the city was built, there were clearly demarcated areas for doctors, gardeners, washermen and barbers called Baidwara, Maliwara, Dhobiwara and Naiwara respectively.
- Similarly washing machines have made washermen without jobs.
- Other castes include washermen, metalworkers, and drummers.
- He is the son of a washerman from Hyderabad and working in Maad area for the past 20 years.
- To think that the offices of a big film company had given way to a sooty kitchen with coal stoves, that washermen did the laundry where the beautiful people had once gathered.
- Among these twenty-five riddle-stories is The Heads That Got Switched, which describes how a washerman, Dhavala, falls in love with Madanasundari, the beautiful daughter of another washerman, and marries her.
- Apart from cooks and numerous assistants there were tailors, washermen, attendants to fan their masters, others to keep away fires, and entire hierarchies of housemaids.
- This kind of ethnic specialization by particular groups of workers - other examples include Zulu washermen and rickshaw-pullers - was not unusual nor did it preclude organization.
- The man in green calls himself ‘Gori’ and says he is forced to sit at home and work as a washerman.
- By the last quarter of the nineteenth century the majority of the once-prosperous artisans and craftsmen were reduced to the ranks of lowliest laborers - the barbers and washermen, the servants and scavengers.
- A washerman from Dvarka, a water-carrier from Jagannath puri, and a barber from Bidar responded one after another and advanced to offer their heads.