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Example sentences for "washermen"

Lexicographically close words:
washed; washee; washen; washer; washerman; washers; washerwoman; washerwomen; washes; washeth
  1. Now, a lock of the woman's hair fell into the river, and it floated to the place where Pharaoh's washermen were at work.

  2. And the sweet lock perfumed all the raiment of Pharaoh, and the washermen knew not wherefore, and they were rebuked.

  3. Kilalendias avoid touching the bamboo posts used by washermen to support the ropes on which cloths are hung to dry.

  4. One of the recognised names of washermen in Tamil is Egali or Ekali.

  5. It is merely my way of describing the adamantine qualities of Liszt and Tausig--two magnetic mountains of the kind told of in Sinbad, the Sailor, to which was attracted whatever came within their radius.

  6. And Rubinstein--what a man, what an artist, what a heart!

  7. Though barbers and washermen will not eat food prepared by them, they are allowed to enter Hindu temples.

  8. Five individuals were recorded, at the census, 1901, under the name Pariyata or Parit, as members of a Bombay caste of washermen in South Canara.

  9. The Podara, Podarayan or Pothora Vannans are washermen of inferior social status, who wash clothes for Pallans, Paraiyans, and other low classes.

  10. Somewhat similar anomalies occur in the case of the Kammalas, and the explanation may be that these two castes belonged to the old left-hand faction, while the Pariyans, and the barbers and washermen belonged to the right-hand.

  11. While the last of these sections, in addition to their traditional occupation, are washermen and climbers of areca palm trees, the Pana Velans take sawing as a supplementary employment.

  12. However, even the washermen decline to eat with them.

  13. A synonym of the Tamil washermen (Vannan), whose patron deity is Virabhadra, from whom they claim descent.

  14. A party of not less than eighteen washermen is organized to represent the demons and furies--Kuttichattan (a mischievous imp), and many others.

  15. Bana is the Telugu name for the large pot, which the washermen use for boiling the clothes.

  16. The Vannans are washermen in the Tamil and Malayalam countries.

  17. But they are not allowed to enter Hindu temples, they worship devils, and they have separate washermen and barbers of their own, all of which are signs of inferiority.

  18. After a torchlight procession with torches fed with ghi (clarified butter) the village washermen come to the pandal, and collect together the leaves and food, which have been left there.

  19. The main streets being thus sprinkled over with poli or blood-stained rice, the lanes or gulleys are attended to by the washermen of the village, who give them their share of the poli.

  20. In some places, Madigas have their own washermen and barbers.

  21. A portion of the kumbham or blood-stained rice heaped up before the image is gathered into two or three baskets, and carried with the procession by washermen or Madigas.

  22. They have neither washermen nor barbers, but wash clothes and shave for one another.

  23. A small class of washermen in South Canara.

  24. Of these Ashtikkurichchi and Pulikkal are divisions of Maran, Vyapari is a division of Chettis, and Vilakkitalavan and Veluthetan are barbers and washermen respectively.

  25. Then the washermen of Pharaoh quarrelled among themselves, saying, "There is an odour [as of] perfumed oil in the clothes of Pharaoh.

  26. Sampaloc, inhabited principally by Indians employed as washermen and women, is sometimes called the Pueblo de los Lavanderos.

  27. Sampaloc is the paradise of washermen and washerwomen.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "washermen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.