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But the winning touchdown was scored by a rookie running back named Ted Dean, whose mother had been my step-grandfather’s laundress.
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
It became known as the Littlehampton libels, with the culprit revealed to be a 30-year-old laundress named Edith Swan, who tried to pin the blame on her neighbor, Rose Gooding, until she was found out.
—Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
New York City itself housed one of the largest urban slave populations in North America: Around four in ten households in the city held people in bondage as domestic servants, carriage drivers, laundresses and dock workers.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
One worker presses down hard on a shirt with a hot iron, head lowered and leaning into her labor as a commercial laundress.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
It became known as the Littlehampton libels, with the culprit revealed to be a 30-year-old laundress named Edith Swan, who tried to pin the blame on her neighbor, Rose Gooding, until she was found out.
—Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
New York City itself housed one of the largest urban slave populations in North America: Around four in ten households in the city held people in bondage as domestic servants, carriage drivers, laundresses and dock workers.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
One worker presses down hard on a shirt with a hot iron, head lowered and leaning into her labor as a commercial laundress.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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