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washhouse

washhouse noun: a domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.

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

Synonyms of washhouse

Forms of washhouse

pluralwashhouses
alternative formwash house

Origin of washhouse

From Old English wæsċhūs, equivalent to wash + house.

Questions about washhouse

What does washhouse mean?
Washhouse means a domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
What part of speech is washhouse?
Washhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of washhouse?
The plural of washhouse is washhouses.

Words near washhouse in the dictionary

  1. washhand tables
  2. washhand-basin
  3. washhand-basins
  4. washhand-stand
  5. washhand-stands
  6. washhouse
  7. washhouses
  8. washi
  9. washi tape
  10. washi tapes
  11. washier

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