(especially in South Asia) a man whose occupation is washing clothes.
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We had this one washerman when I was girl who would constantly steal my knickers.
Although the Council made attempts to improve the quality of the service provided by native washermen, the laundrymen did not change much in the washing process.
The washermen used to dig burrows effortlessly at Vannandurai at Besant Nagar for water.
When the city was built, there were clearly demarcated areas for doctors, gardeners, washermen and barbers called Baidwara, Maliwara, Dhobiwara and Naiwara respectively.
Similarly washing machines have made washermen without jobs.
Other castes include washermen, metalworkers, and drummers.
He is the son of a washerman from Hyderabad and working in Maad area for the past 20 years.
To think that the offices of a big film company had given way to a sooty kitchen with coal stoves, that washermen did the laundry where the beautiful people had once gathered.
Among these twenty-five riddle-stories is The Heads That Got Switched, which describes how a washerman, Dhavala, falls in love with Madanasundari, the beautiful daughter of another washerman, and marries her.
Apart from cooks and numerous assistants there were tailors, washermen, attendants to fan their masters, others to keep away fires, and entire hierarchies of housemaids.
This kind of ethnic specialization by particular groups of workers - other examples include Zulu washermen and rickshaw-pullers - was not unusual nor did it preclude organization.
The man in green calls himself ‘Gori’ and says he is forced to sit at home and work as a washerman.
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.
A washerman from Dvarka, a water-carrier from Jagannath puri, and a barber from Bidar responded one after another and advanced to offer their heads.