"Washerman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... monkey, with a chuckle, 'I think you must be going a little mad. Do you take me for a washerman's donkey?' ...
— The Lilac Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... from Edward the Fourth's Liber Niger Domus, soap was used only for washing clothes. The yeoman lavender, or washerman, was to take from the Great Spicery 'as muche whyte soape, greye, and blacke, as can be thought resonable by proufe of the Countrollers,' and therewith 'tenderly to waysshe ... the stuffe for the Kinges propyr persone' (H. Ord. ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various |
