laundress
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of washerwoman.
Example Sentences
- "I tell thee ſhameleſſe girle, Thou ſhalt be Landreſſe to my waiting maide:"
- "‘Sir,’ said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, ‘I’ve laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself. […]’"
- "And oh, my dears, real washing is very different work from the dolls’ laundressing—standing round a wash-hand basin placed on a nursery chair, and wasting ever so much beautiful honey-soap in nice clean hot water […]"
- "2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, Book Three, p. 260, Mama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days."
Etymology
Etymology tree English launder Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English launderer English ess English laundress From launderer + ess.