laundress

n. 洗衣女工

词形变化

laundresses 复数 laundresses laundressed laundresses 三单 laundressing laundressing 现在分词 laundressed 过去式 laundressed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of washerwoman.

v.
  1. 1.

    To act as a laundress.

    历史 废旧

    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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

laundrywoman washerwoman washwoman

上位词 2

woman washer

词源

From launderer + -ess.

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