different between laundress vs launder

English

Etymology

launderer +? -ess

Noun

laundress (plural laundresses)

1. Synonym of washerwoman

Translations

Verb

laundress (third-person singular simple present laundresses, present participle laundressing, simple past and past participle laundressed)

1. (obsolete, historical) To act as a laundress.
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 26,^[1]

     ‘Sir,’ said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, ‘I’ve laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself. […] ’

   • 1875, Mary Louisa Molesworth, “Too Bad” in Tell Me a Story, London: Macmillan, 5th edition, 1882, p. 169,^[2]

     And oh, my dears, real washing is very different work from the dolls’ laundressing—standing round a wash-hand basin placed on a nursery chair, and wasting ever so much beautiful honey-soap in nice clean hot water […]

   • 2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, Book Three, p. 260,^[3]

     Mama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days.

English

Etymology

Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lav? (“I wash”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??nd?/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /?l??nd?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?nd?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?l?nd?/
• Rhymes: -??nd?(?), -??nd?(?)

Noun

launder (plural launders)

1. (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
2. (mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
3. A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.

   Synonym: inlayer

4. A gutter (for rainwater).

Synonyms

• (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman

Translations

Verb

launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)

1. To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
2. (obsolete) To lave; to wet.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
4. (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.

Derived terms

• money laundering

Translations

Related terms

• launderer
• launderette
• laundress
• laundry
• lave

References

• launder in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• launder at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Arundel, lurdane, rundale

Middle English

Noun

launder

1. Alternative form of lavender