What's the difference between laundress and washwoman?
Laundress
Definition:
(n.) A woman whose employment is laundering.
(v. i.) To act as a laundress.
Example Sentences:
(1) The days of the 9-5 were decades away; instead many worked on average 12-15 hours a day, every day, and not just in what we might consider "normal" women's jobs such as domestic service, charwoman, laundress or shirt-maker.
(2) craftsmen, charwomen, laundress, kitchenhelp, servants and so on.
(3) My grandmother passed as white to work as a laundress, as did my grandfather in order to join the carpenter’s union.
(4) Degas painted his absinthe drinkers and Renoir his Le Moulin de la Galette in the same year, while the paint had dried several years before on Pissarro's south London suburbs and Degas's'' milliners and laundresses.