Noun
A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman. John Burns
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived. John Henrik Clarke
[Rembrandt's habit of taking] a washerwoman or peat-trader from some barn [and] calling his whim the imitation of Nature and everything else decoration. Rembrandt
He wears the mourning of his washerwoman. French Proverb
In Scottish folklore, a similar creature is known as the bean nighe or ban nigheachain (little washerwoman) or nigheag na h-àth (little washer at the ford) and is seen washing the bloodstained clothes or armour of those who are about to die. Source: Internet
The barge's owner offers him a lift in exchange for Toad's services as a washerwoman. Source: Internet