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washhouses

washhouses is the plural 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

Questions about washhouses

What is washhouses the plural of?
Washhouses is the plural of washhouse.

Words near washhouses in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: washhouses (page history and authors); washhouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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