laundress

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a woman employed to wash and iron clothes; now dated

   The household hired a laundress to wash the bed linen each Monday.

Formed from launder or launderer with the feminine suffix -ess. It was once a common occupational term, but the gender-neutral laundry worker is now generally preferred.

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