Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wash-house.
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Examples
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I will engage a gang of well-diggers, and they shall dig the well, and I will pay masons for the stonework round the top, and I will pay carpenters to build the washing-house.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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I will engage a gang of well-diggers, and they shall dig the well, and I will pay masons for the stonework round the top, and I will pay carpenters to build the washing-house.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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We each have a bunk to ourselves, with a proper mattress, pillow, and blankets: a table and seat at one end, lots of racks and hooks, and a lovely little washing-house leading out of the bunk, shared by the two Sisters on each side of it: each has a door into it.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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And that is what she is singing just now in the garden; and Mairi she is bringing the things out of the washing-house.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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The roots being dug up with the hoe, are transported to the washing-house, where they are thoroughly freed from all adhering earth, and next taken individually into the hand and deprived, by a knife, of every portion of their skins, while every unsound part is cut away.
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My bicycle, it lies in the washing-house; you remember I broke it and you didn't wish it mended, lest I should break something worse than a wheel, perhaps.
Twilight stories 1905
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It smelt strong of the fog, like the smell of a washing-house, but with a shrewd tang of the sea salt.
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Charlotte Street and had passed the old washing-house.
James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877
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It smelt strong of the fog, like the smell of a washing-house, but with a shrewd tang of the sea-salt.
The Sea Fogs Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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It smelt strong of the fog, like the smell of a washing-house, but with a shrewd tang of the sea salt.
The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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