washerwoman

IPA: wˈɑʃɝwʊmʌn

A woman who washes people's laundry.
(colloquial) A double drummer, large cicada of Australia, of species Thopha saccata.
A weedy plant of the Americas (Alternanthera caracasana).

Examples of "washerwoman" in Sentences

I say we sneak him out, disguise him as an old washerwoman.
Your washerwoman is a lady, and your coalman a Chesterfield.
The washerwoman is the "wash-lady", and is just as much a lady as her mistress.
And she talked, seized with a ferocious gaiety, recalling a washerwoman's song,
This Scutari washerwoman is no exception to the rule, and welcomes me most heartily.
But patent buttons are invented, and collar-buttons that cannot be ironed off by the "washerwoman," supply a long-felt want.
Let Carlyle have the credit of using the word "washerwoman" as a term of contempt, as though to do laundry-work were not quite as necessary as to produce literature.
MELBOURNE AFP - Oprah Winfrey's production company asked a Melbourne shop to remove golliwog "washerwoman" dolls from display fearing the talk-show queen would take offence, reports said Thursday.
"Afternoon, ser Cerryl!" called the washerwoman who had set her basket on the narrow porch of Esad's-a store of odd items, neither a chandlery nor a miller's market nor a weaver's shop, but a place that held items partaking selectedly of all.
In the interim, Miss Fanny had been picked up in the street, for the fourth time, by a benevolent "washerwoman," who happened to be passing by at the moment; had been conveyed to the said washerwoman's lodgings; and now appeared before us, despoiled, at last, of all the glories of the red polka, enveloped from head to foot in clouds of white muslin, and dying with frightful rapidity in an armchair.