Laundress

(n.) A woman whose employment is laundering.

(v. i.) To act as a laundress.

手打:凯勒

• I am Mr. Perker's laundress,' replied the woman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• And, ma'am, he continued, the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Lastly, as he had not yet been seen by the laundress or her niece, he was to keep himself out of their view until his change of dress was made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He did everything for me except the household work, for which he had engaged a very decent woman, after paying off the laundress on his first arrival. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Yes, I know where he is, but he won't thank me for telling you,' replied the laundress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Ah,' said Mr. Pickwick, half aside to Sam, 'it's a curious circumstance, Sam, that they call the old women in these inns, laundresses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

编辑:内尔达