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Washerman
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Wash´er`man
n.1.A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
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Noun1.Washerman - operates industrial washing machinewasherman - operates industrial washing machine
washer - someone who washes things for a living


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Manucci also mentions the presence of "musicians, dancing boys, women dancers, barbers, cloth-dealers, tailors, washermen, farriers with horse shoes, endless cheating physicians and many sellers of grass and straw for the horses" as well as "women of pleasure".
Similarly, the disease must be detected in servants, waiters in restaurants, salesmen, postmen, washermen, sweepers, barbers, cobblers, etc.
By the last quarter of the nineteenth century the majority of the once-prosperous artisans and craftsmen were reduced to the ranks of lowliest laborers--the barbers and washermen, the servants and scavengers.
 
 
 
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