Definition of "laundress" in Englisch

noun

1. Synonym of washerwoman.

verb

1. (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, Mama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days.