wash-house

For instance, L'Assommoir The Drinking Den features a wash-house brawl between Gervaise and Virginie with some slapstick moments -- including what might be literature's most memorable spanking.

Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 04: 54 PM and ..., how did they carry the laundry from home to the wash-house - and back again? in "paniers" (baskets), in "baquets" (small wooden vats) put on a wooden wheelbarrow or on a wooden cart.

lavoir - French Word-A-Day 2009

For instance, L'Assommoir The Drinking Den features a wash-house brawl between Gervaise and Virginie with some slapstick moments -- including what might be literature's most memorable spanking.

Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012

The barracks included living accommodation, a cook house (the former "40's" house which served as living accommodation for our family in the 1960s) and the wash-house. (the wash/cook house was in use up to the break-up of the settlement in the 1980s.)

Work Camp 785 GW 2010

It is where the washerwomen did their laundry before a public wash-house was built.

Valerie Tarico: Capetown: God Is Water 2010

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 04:54 PM and..., how did they carry the laundry from home to the wash-house - and back again?

lavoir - French Word-A-Day 2009

The soapy, steamy air of the wash-house was no doubt a homely odour, to a girl used to the hot air of the ironing-room.

Succedaneum 2004

But the nights were wonderfully dark, as though with no stars in the heaven; and all day long the mists were rolling upon the hills and down them, as if the whole land were a wash-house.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

She went out to the wash-house in the little shed at the back of the garden to fire up the wash-boiler out there, a huge kettle built right into a kind of oven, pump it full of cold water, and add the soap.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Again, one hot afternoon when she believed him sleeping, he heard her chattering away in the wash-house below, where she was bearing their landlady company. —

Succedaneum 2004