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Examples
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Everything is, you know, cleaned, laundried or ironed or whatever needs to be done.
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I did not learn how much the average Chinaman gets for a day's wages, but I know that one of my friends sent a dozen linen dresses to be laundried, and that the charge was thirty-six cents.
An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Emily Bronson Conger
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Cynthia, on the contrary, was dressed in a shabby gingham gown freshly laundried and stiffly starched, but much mended, and her pocket was guiltless of money.
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The officer thus promoted, in a particularly lustrous shirt bosom -- he had them laundried in England and sent out with the mails -- made a serious social effort to correspond, and succeeded in producing more than one story of the Principal Medical Officer with her Majesty's forces in India which none of them heard before.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Braces were a luxury which he could not endure, so he supported his superfluously laundried overalls with a strand of baling-rope which had already served its time as a halter guy.
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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After he died I laundried for a living until I got too old to work.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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She wore her blue linen -- it had been laundried many times since that May morning when Sandy first saw her in it; but, as Sally Taber, working under strict instructions, dried it in a pillow case -- the colour was still true blue and the shrinkage slight.
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Napkin rings are discarded by many who hold that a napkin should be used but once, and must be re-laundried before reappearing on the table.
Etiquette Agnes H. Morton
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Her eyes, sweeping past Beauvayse, fastened on the drooping, stricken figure of the girl, read the altered face, and then she turned them on the boy, and they were stern as those of some avenging Angel, and her white wimple, laundried to snowy immaculateness by the capable hands of Sister Tobias, framed a face as white.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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You will have a dozen changes, and Winnie will see that they are properly laundried.
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