laundress

== English == === Etymology === From launderer + ess. === Noun === laundress (plural laundresses) Synonym of washerwoman. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === laundress (third-person singular simple present laundresses, present participle laundressing, simple past and past participle laundressed) (obsolete, historical) To act as a laundress. 2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, Book Three, p. 260,[2] Mama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days.