| Katalyn was one of the many laundresses required to make an army camp work. |
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| She thought of Maurice's shirts, the many she had seen pausing to help the laundresses. |
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| In the Middle Ages the laundresses would drape the household sheets over lavender bushes to dry and to impart their fresh, clean scent. |
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| Brown points out that many of the bank's loyal supporters were laundresses. |
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| Many of them provided indispensable services as laundresses, cooks and nurses. |
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| Two laundresses had taken pity on her and had shown her the way since they were headed that direction anyway. |
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| Irish working class girls were viewed as drunken and feckless, only suitable to be housemaids or laundresses. |
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| He primarily painted the crew but like his laundresses, in no specifically individual way. |
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| The life of London laundresses in the mid-19th century is a major theme in a new exhibition at The Women's Library. |
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| Records do show that free Black women served during the Civil War as nurses, laundresses and cooks. |
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| Black women were signed on as nurses instead of laundresses or cooks only when they were to serve in all-black hospitals or relegated to nurse infectious white patients. |
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| The old people's home also employs cooks, secretaries, laundresses, cleaners and entertainers. |
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| Hundreds and thousands of sutlers, laundresses, cobblers, prostitutes, cooks, and baggage boys trailed and supplied Landsknecht armies. |
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| The founder of the product started business in England and had one of the royal laundresses try a few cubes, and she endorsed the product. |
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| Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics. |
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| Because of their lowly social status and outspoken behavior, the reputation of laundresses in late eighteenth-century Spain was problematic at best. |
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| Among women, common occupations included servants and waitresses, and seamstresses or laundresses, with smaller groups of laborers and factory workers. |
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| Concentrated primarily as laborers, teamsters, deliverymen, waiters, servants, maids and laundresses, they held many of the lowest paid and least skilled jobs in the city. |
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| The houses of Bosco Parrasio and of Via della Lungara housed the oratory for the poorest girls of the neighborhood, little laundresses who worked in the homes of wealthy people. |
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| The laundresses had teased her by suggesting she'll receive the ring baked into the Halloween barmbrack she serves at tea, a traditional omen of impending nuptials. |
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