Also 7 lander, laundre. [f. LAUNDER sb.]
1. trans. To wash and ‘get up’ (linen).
1664. Butler, Hud., II. I. 171. It does your visage more adorn Than if ’twere prun’d, and starcht, and lander’d.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xviii. The picture … is up in the old Baron’s hall that the maids launder the clothes in.
1883. G. Cable, Dr. Sevier, xvii. His dress was coarse but clean; his linen soft and badly laundered.
1890. W. H. Shelton, in Century Mag., Oct., 933/1. On hot days they appeared in spotless white duck, which they were permitted to send outside to be laundered.
absol. 1709. Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (ed. 2), I. 150. Some of their beggarly Soldiers Trulls does nothing but Launder for ’em, they’r always at the Wash-Tub.
transf. and fig. 1597. Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 16. Laund’ring the silken figures in the brine, That seasoned woe had pelleted in teares.
1654. [see LATHER v.1].
1878. Swinburne, Poems & Ball., Ser. II. 223 (trans. Villon). The rain has washed and laundered us all five.
† 2. To ‘sweat’ (gold or plate). Obs.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., I. i. I’ll bring … Thy necke within a nooze, for laundring gold and barbing it.
Hence Laundered ppl. a.
1892. Daily News, 31 March, 5/5. He [Ravachol] is rather a dandy, and affects nicely-laundered shirts.
1893. Kate Wiggin, Cathedral Courtship, 151. A freshly laundered cushion cover.
