单词 | washwoman |
释义 | ˈwashwoman Now U.S. [f. wash v.] = washerwoman.
1590Dewsbury Parish Ch. Reg. 28 Sept., Massoley a maid of Mr. Rowland Owans a washwoman buried. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) I. xiv. 52 You would much sooner be taken for her wash-woman. 1816W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXI. 121 Among the lost plays of Sophocles, are enumerated..Nausicaa, or the Wash-women (πλύντριαι). 1852C. W. Day Five Yrs.' Resid. W. Indies II. 297 The Spanish flounces of the negro wash-women. 1856Olmsted Slave States 72 ‘Is you come from Colonel Gillin's, massa?’ asked the wash-woman. |

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