laundryman
/ˈlɔːndrɪmən
/noun (plural laundrymen)
A man who is employed to launder clothes and linen.For many years before 1898, foreign residents had to have their clothes washed by native laundrymen....
- 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.