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Degas is doing his milliners and laundresses and ballet dancers.
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Others worked for officers as valets, while some women found roles as cooks and laundresses.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
Margaret Thomas joined George Washington’s Continental Army, working as a laundress and traveling with the soldiers.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
But the winning touchdown was scored by a rookie running back named Ted Dean, whose mother had been my step-grandfather’s laundress.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Others worked for officers as valets, while some women found roles as cooks and laundresses.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
Margaret Thomas joined George Washington’s Continental Army, working as a laundress and traveling with the soldiers.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
But the winning touchdown was scored by a rookie running back named Ted Dean, whose mother had been my step-grandfather’s laundress.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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