- I'm a laundress. - Laundress?

I don't wanna be a laundress.

I'm a laundress, not a detective.

I don't wanna be a laundress.

- Is she... - Yeah, but she's a good laundress.

Thousands of women served as laundresses, nurses, seamstresses.

Your laundress was found to be carrying letters in her washing.

He certainly looks guilty, your Honor... with the poor old laundress lying dead.

PAULET: Your laundress was found to be carrying letters in her washing.

Domestic workers were known as “house girls”. Under the Employment Act, domestic workers were persons working in a dwelling not associated with any trade, business or profession, and could be cooks, house servants, children's nurses, gardeners, laundresses, watchmen or drivers.