wash-houses

Fascinating to come across 2 different experiences - your Mum's, and yours -, with French “lavoirs” and Moroccan people using these wash-houses!

lavoir - French Word-A-Day 2009

Fascinating to come across 2 different experiences -your Mum's, and yours-, with French “lavoirs” and Moroccan people using these wash-houses!

lavoir - French Word-A-Day 2009

Brandenburgers; but they seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of hard, competent N.C.O.s. We marched round the wash-houses, the recreation-ground, the kitchens, the hospital — with nobody in it save one chap with the ‘flu.’

Greenmantle 2005

Farther downstream were moored the floating wash-houses — shallow, roofed barges, in which women knelt to scrub, and rinse, and wring.

Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

There must be a way into the castle from this little yard-possibly a back-way into the kitchen or wash-houses.

The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

He became a man of "affairs," destined, thenceforward, to live in the publicity of debating-halls, among those ideas which reformers and politicians have actually socialised, removing them from the privacy of human experience and turning them into public property -- like parks, open spaces, and wash-houses.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

But these Chinese, as to faces and their wash-houses, and all the paraphernalia of their wash-houses, are so much alike that this is an easy mistake to make.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

A due water-supply should be carried up to every story, and provided for the bathrooms, the wash-houses, and the kitchen.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

Along the river are great flour-mills, with wash-houses and red-armed, blue-bloused women eternally washing and rinsing.

The Automobilist Abroad

He sees lecture halls and academies, means of sanitary purification, and delicious recreation, in which baths, wash-houses, and airy homes figure largely; while public walks extend all round the great industrial hive, including wood, hills, meadow and river in their circuit of many miles.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various