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wash house

wash house is the alternative form of washhouse.

Meaning of washhouse

Noun

washhouse (plural washhouses)

  1. A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
    • Now I'll see things walking a road that fifty other men would miss. I'll give you an instance, connected with the robbery of a wash-house copper."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 218
    Synonyms:
    sinkhouse
  2. A public laundry.
  3. (New Zealand) A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room.
  4. (UK, historical) A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes.
    • […] the washhouses complied with the Factory and Workshops Act of 1907.2000, Joseph R. Skoski, Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain, 1842-1914, page 124

Forms of wash house

pluralwash houses

Questions about wash house

What is wash house the alternative form of?
Wash house is the alternative form of washhouse.

Words near wash house in the dictionary

  1. wash bin
  2. wash bins
  3. wash bottle
  4. wash bottles
  5. wash down
  6. wash house
  7. wash houses
  8. wash its face
  9. wash leather
  10. wash leathers
  11. wash line

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