Definition of "laundry-maid" [laundry-maid]

• A female servant who works in a laundry. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The merit of the original idea of a raking pot of tea evidently belongs to the washerwoman and the laundry-maid."
• "The laundry-maid should commence her labours on Monday morning by a careful examination of the articles committed to her care, and enter them in the washing-book; separating the white linen and collars, sheets and body-linen into one heap, fine muslins into another, coloured cotton and linen fabrics into a third, woollens into a fourth, and the coarser kitchen and other greasy cloth into a fifth."
• "On Saturday mornings she gave up all her usual avocations, denied herself to the general public, and devoted her energies to the wash-tub and the ironing board, the result of which operations she proudly displayed in a pile of muslins which would have done credit to an experienced laundry-maid."