| The washermen used to dig burrows effortlessly at Vannandurai at Besant Nagar for water. |
| A 16-year-old boy who earns a hundred rupees a day driving a bicycle ricksha, led me to the riverbanks where the dhobis, or washermen, were working. |
| In the heart of the water and washing cycle, our washerwomen and washermen make emotions lather and gush forth on the public area. |
| To think that the offices of a big film company had given way to a sooty kitchen with coal stoves, that washermen did the laundry where the beautiful people had once gathered. |
| Similarly washing machines have made washermen without jobs. |
| Although the Council made attempts to improve the quality of the service provided by native washermen, the laundrymen did not change much in the washing process. |
