Meaning of Washhouse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
2. A public laundry.
3. A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room.
   New-Zealand
4. A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes.
   UK, historical

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Examples

“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."”

“[…] the washhouses complied with the Factory and Workshops Act of 1907.”

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