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Several of them are familiar, such as the Seventh Cavalry laundress, a male who posed as a woman and was married to a man for years.
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Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2025
Your mother used the napkin rings to lighten the load of the laundress (who, for all Miss Manners knows, may have been your mother herself).
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
Another must-see stop is the Rose Cottage, the former home of Adeline Rose, a woman who was born into slavery, yet managed to save enough money from her job as a laundress to construct this house for herself and her children.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2025
Sophie was working as a laundress at a federal boarding school in Pine Ridge when federal troops massacred some 250 Native people at nearby Wounded Knee in 1890.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2025
Your mother used the napkin rings to lighten the load of the laundress (who, for all Miss Manners knows, may have been your mother herself).
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
Another must-see stop is the Rose Cottage, the former home of Adeline Rose, a woman who was born into slavery, yet managed to save enough money from her job as a laundress to construct this house for herself and her children.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2025
Sophie was working as a laundress at a federal boarding school in Pine Ridge when federal troops massacred some 250 Native people at nearby Wounded Knee in 1890.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for laundress
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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