washhouse
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]washhouse (plural washhouses)
- A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
- A public laundry.
- (New Zealand) A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room.
- (UK, historical) A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes.
- 2000, Joseph R. Skoski, Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain, 1842-1914, page 124:
- […] the washhouses complied with the Factory and Workshops Act of 1907.