1.He hired a battery of staff to help him with the daily chores, including a scullion (dishwasher), a laundress and a shoeblack (someone who cleans shoes).
5.He did everything for me except the household work, for which he had engaged a very decent woman, after paying off the laundress on his first arrival.
6.Born dirt-poor in the small town of Searchlight, Nevada, to a miner and a laundress, he spent his early years in a shack without indoor plumbing or a telephone.
8." And, ma’am, " he continued, " the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one" .