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Magdalene laundries

Magdalene laundries is the plural of Magdalene laundry.

Meaning of Magdalene laundry

Noun

Magdalene laundry (plural Magdalene laundries)

  1. (Ireland, historical) A religious facility in which prostitutes and unmarried mothers were kept, usually against their will, as a source of forced labour to launder clothes.

Questions about Magdalene laundries

What is Magdalene laundries the plural of?
Magdalene laundries is the plural of Magdalene laundry.

Words near Magdalene laundries in the dictionary

  1. Magdalene asylum
  2. Magdalene asylums
  3. Magdalene hospital
  4. Magdalene hospitals
  5. Magdalene Islands
  6. Magdalene laundries
  7. Magdalene laundry
  8. Magdalenes
  9. Magdalenian
  10. Magdalenians
  11. Magdalenite

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