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launderer|ˈlɔːndərə(r), ˈlɑːndərə(r)|
Also 5 lawnderer, 6–7 landerer, 7 laundrer.
[f. launder n.: see -er1 3; now regarded as f. launder v.]
1. One who launders (linen). Obs. exc. U.S.
c1475Cath. Angl. (Add. MS.) 210/2 Lawnderer, candidaria, lotrix. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §101 (1877) 89 Launderers. 1598Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 379 The Woman which is Landerer or Nurse shall be essoined. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Launderer 56 A launderer may bee as well a male as a female, by course of nature. 1666Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 185 The cook and laundrer comprehended in the number. 1876Dixon White Conq. I. xvii. 171 Having their work done better and cheaper by..Chinese launderers in Jackson Street. 1884Circular [The makers of an ironing machine shown at the Health Exhibition ask the support of] launderers and laundresses. 1889Daily News 8 June 5/1 A laundress, or washerwoman [in America], is now ‘a lady launderer’.
fig.a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 386 An Anabaptist..is a Landerer of Souls, and tries them, as Men do Witches, by Water.
†2. One who ‘launders’ gold or plate; a sweater.
1632D. Lupton Lond. & Country Carbonadoed (1857) 277 Some of the men are cunning Landerers of plate, and get much by washing that plate they handle, and it hath come from some of them..a great deale the lighter. |