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单词 washerwoman
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Definition of washerwoman in English:

washerwoman

nounPlural washerwomenˈwɒʃəwʊmən
  • A woman whose occupation is washing clothes.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.
    • In the case of the washerwoman, it is a sound - the shouts of the fleeing man - that throws her into a panic.
    • While toiling as a St. Louis washerwoman during the 1890s, she began to go bald.
    • Some of these women were employed as washerwomen or cooks, but most were not listed with an occupation.
    • Patients get severe muscle cramps; their skin hangs loose, and their hands look like a washerwoman's that have become dehydrated after prolonged water exposure.
    • She looked probably in her late twenties, I recognized her, though, for I couldn't have possibly forgotten that washerwoman's build.
    • His father was a poor cobbler with great cultural aspirations and his mother a semi-literate washerwoman.
    • His subjects were factory workers, bellboys, washerwomen, road workers and beggars.
    • Then, in the greatest tradition of cinema, they decide instead to try and invade the most strategic fort, currently held by the enemy, by sneaking in disguised as washerwomen.
    • Her characters in fiction and drama included domestic workers, washerwomen, seamstresses, and the unemployed, as well as dancers, artists, and teachers.
    • The first woman he sees is a washerwoman hanging out the institution's washing.
    • When the large plantations were established in the 1820s and 1830s, native Hawaiian men were employed as farm workers while Hawaiian women worked in the houses of white immigrants as maids and washerwomen.
    • On the outskirts of the city by the river I watch washerwomen scrub clothes at giant water tanks.
    • Other witnesses were washerwomen, tavern keepers, or dockworkers.
    • I have no father, and my mother was a washerwoman.
    • Chances are that the washerwoman did not have a judge for a husband or father.
    • We were painfully aware that the poorest of the poor, such as washerwomen and casual labourers, were still unable to borrow, because they lacked enterprises.
    • Others were seamstresses, barkeeps, gardeners, washerwomen, and confectioners.
    • I've been called a lot of different things in the last couple of years, but ‘a plump, wrinkly old washerwoman from Fez, Morocco’ wasn't one of them.
    • Don't show up your lovely ring with washerwoman's hands.
 
 

Definition of washerwoman in US English:

washerwoman

noun
  • A woman whose occupation is washing clothes.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first woman he sees is a washerwoman hanging out the institution's washing.
    • She looked probably in her late twenties, I recognized her, though, for I couldn't have possibly forgotten that washerwoman's build.
    • I've been called a lot of different things in the last couple of years, but ‘a plump, wrinkly old washerwoman from Fez, Morocco’ wasn't one of them.
    • I have no father, and my mother was a washerwoman.
    • Chances are that the washerwoman did not have a judge for a husband or father.
    • Some of these women were employed as washerwomen or cooks, but most were not listed with an occupation.
    • Other witnesses were washerwomen, tavern keepers, or dockworkers.
    • While toiling as a St. Louis washerwoman during the 1890s, she began to go bald.
    • We were painfully aware that the poorest of the poor, such as washerwomen and casual labourers, were still unable to borrow, because they lacked enterprises.
    • His subjects were factory workers, bellboys, washerwomen, road workers and beggars.
    • Don't show up your lovely ring with washerwoman's hands.
    • Then, in the greatest tradition of cinema, they decide instead to try and invade the most strategic fort, currently held by the enemy, by sneaking in disguised as washerwomen.
    • Others were seamstresses, barkeeps, gardeners, washerwomen, and confectioners.
    • I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely.
    • When the large plantations were established in the 1820s and 1830s, native Hawaiian men were employed as farm workers while Hawaiian women worked in the houses of white immigrants as maids and washerwomen.
    • Her characters in fiction and drama included domestic workers, washerwomen, seamstresses, and the unemployed, as well as dancers, artists, and teachers.
    • Patients get severe muscle cramps; their skin hangs loose, and their hands look like a washerwoman's that have become dehydrated after prolonged water exposure.
    • In the case of the washerwoman, it is a sound - the shouts of the fleeing man - that throws her into a panic.
    • His father was a poor cobbler with great cultural aspirations and his mother a semi-literate washerwoman.
    • On the outskirts of the city by the river I watch washerwomen scrub clothes at giant water tanks.
 
 
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