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WASHERWOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does washerwoman mean?
• WASHERWOMAN (noun)
The noun WASHERWOMAN has 1 sense:
1. a working woman who takes in washing
Familiarity information: WASHERWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A working woman who takes in washing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
laundress; laundrywoman; washerwoman; washwoman
Hypernyms ("washerwoman" is a kind of...):
washer (someone who washes things for a living)
Context examples
As to the washerwoman pawning the clothes, and coming in a state of penitent intoxication to apologize, I suppose that might have happened several times to anybody.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
With a washerwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlour-window, dwelling next door, and a Bow-street officer residing over the way, you may imagine that his society is a source of consolation to myself and to Mrs. Micawber.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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