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  • noun Plural form of washhouse.

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Examples

  • It consists of nine sleeping and living barracks, one barrack used for infirmary and Red Cross parcel store-room, two cookhouses with adjoining dining rooms, two washhouses, and two huts with latrines.

    Work Camp 107 GW 2010

  • There are only 24 taps with running cold water in the two washhouses.

    Work Camp 95 GW 2010

  • There might have been some fun in showing even the back kitchens to his bride-elect by herself; — but there was one in wandering about those vast underground regions with a stout old lady who was really interested with the cooking apparatus and the washhouses.

    The Duke's Children 2004

  • Meanwhile our men worked with industry and speed, but not without a fault or two, for their thoughts were fixed upon the town and its washhouses and churches.

    Through Russia 2003

  • He also saw the overcrowded huts and the primitive and insufficient latrines and washhouses.

    Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951

  • Even though I lived alone in my cell, I yet came into daily contact with my fellow prisoners during exercise in the courtyard, or on the way to one or another of the prison administration offices, in the washhouses, through contact with the cleaners, or at the barber's, or with the prisoners who brought or collected the work materials, or in many other ways.

    Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951

  • All of our barracks, washhouses, latrines, blockhouses, and stables, were designed to use available timber stocks.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • Municipalities took charge of baths and washhouses, organized and built public markets, ensured a cheap and ample supply of pure water, installed modern systems of drainage, provided housing accommodation at low rents for the poorer classes, built hospitals for infectious diseases, and, finally, carried on the great and important work of educating its citizens.

    Queen Victoria E. Gordon Browne

  • Add to which, that much may be done in these gigantic kitchens and washhouses by the judicious introduction of a steam-engine, which might also be employed in supplying all the apartments with water.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

  • One is that the working time will be alike for men and women, another that domestic life will be limited to the cohabitation of man and woman, for children are to be brought up by society, and a third that cooking and washing will be the care of central public kitchens and washhouses.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

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