washerwoman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical: a woman employed to wash other people's clothes and household linen

   The washerwoman carried the clean linen back from the laundry yard.

A compound of washer + woman, recorded for a woman who earned money by washing clothes or taking in laundry. The occupation was common before domestic washing machines and commercial laundries.

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