washerwoman.
/wosh-er-woom-uhn, waw-sher-/US // ˈwɒʃ ərˌwʊm ən, ˈwɔ ʃər- //UK // (ˈwɒʃəˌwʊmən) //
纺织女工,浣纱女,浣纱师,浣纱工
Definitions
n.noun · 名词
- 1.
plural wash·er·wom·en.
- ›a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
Examples
She worked as a domestic and a nanny for a wealthy family, then secured a job as a washerwoman chez Mère Fillioux.
Ah, ça, Monsieur my brother, do you take me for a washerwoman?
The last paper would deal with the washerwoman at one's own home, and at hers.
He would have her save out of her washerwoman and linendraper, and yet have a smart gown and go in a brougham.
Among them was an elderly woman going to see her daughter, who was a washerwoman at St. Petersburg.
Touched by her youth, her misfortune and her beauty, my father apprenticed her to a washerwoman who lived near us.
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