"laundress" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:",
          "text": "I tell thee ſhameleſſe girle,\nThou ſhalt be Landreſſe to my waiting maide:",
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          "text": "2007, Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name), New York: Norton, Book Three, p. 260,\nMama got herself free before she had me, and she was laundressing for the British since my early days."
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