Now U.S. [f. WASH v.] = WASHERWOMAN.

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1590.  Dewsbury Parish Ch. Reg., 28 Sept. Massoley a maid of Mr. Rowland Owans a washwoman buried.

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1778.  Miss Burney, Evelina (1791), I. xiv. 52. You would much sooner be taken for her wash-woman.

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1816.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXXXI. 121. Among the lost plays of Sophocles, are enumerated … Nausicaa, or the Wash-women (πλύντριαι).

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1852.  C. W. Day, Five Yrs.’ Resid. W. Indies, II. 297. The Spanish flounces of the negro wash-women.

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1856.  Olmsted, Slave States, 72. ‘Is you come from Colonel Gillin’s, massa?’ asked the wash-woman.

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