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the Ambidextrous Man poses as a washerwoman who works in the laundry room at the Hotel Denouement. Also, washerwomen serve as characters depicting the...

Washerwoman or Washerwomen may refer to: Washerwoman, a laundress, i.e. a woman who takes in laundry. Both terms are now old-fashioned. Alternanthera caracasana...

The bean-nighe (Scottish Gaelic for 'washerwoman' or 'laundress'; Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [pɛˈɲi.ə]) is a female spirit in Scottish folklore, regarded...

settlers called the place after the washerwomen the surveyor had seen, blanchisseuse being the French for "washerwoman". The difficult terrain meant there...

The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse) (also known in English as The Washerwoman) is an oil-on-panel painted by French artist Honoré Daumier in 1863. It is...

Zweeloo, in the province of Drenthe, in North Holland, where several washerwomen are laying out large white linen towels to dry and bleach. The painting...

washing and replacing their clothes, which earned her the name the "Holy Washerwoman". Her son, who was named after Deodatus and was baptized by him, became...

in most cultures falling to women (formerly known as laundresses or washerwomen). The Industrial Revolution gradually led to mechanized solutions to...

self-employed "mangle women". Middle-class households and independent washerwomen used upright mangles for wringing water out of laundry, and in the later...

Les Lavandières du Portugal (The Washerwomen of Portugal) is a 1957 French film comedy directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit. It was produced by Les Films Univers...

had been published "recently". The combination became known as the "washerwoman's gig" which was featured on the cover of Aunt Sally's Policy Players'...

African Baptist Church, and quite likely from the community of black washerwomen in St. Louis, many of whom had successfully sued for freedom themselves...

teatras) in Kaunas. She played various character roles: beggars, witches, washerwomen, aunts, old moms, nuns. In 1931, Pinkauskaitė together with part of the...

Sprig of Rosemary, The Enchanted Snake, and White-Bear-King-Valemon. A washerwoman's three daughters each in succession ask her to cook them some food to...

the New York Festival Best World's Radio Program 2015 with "The Night Washerwomen", extract from two series of ten short radio programs for the French...

clothes was another occupation women engaged in. Originally, most of the washerwomen were Native or Mexican women. When White men saw how lucrative the profession...

Art, Washington D.C. [163] Washerwomen on the Banks of the Touques 1894 26.7 x 41 Scottish National Gallery [164] Washerwomen on the Beach of Etretat 1894...