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▪ I. laundry, n.|ˈlɔːndrɪ, ˈlɑːndrɪ|
Also 6 landerie, -y, 8 landry.
[Altered form of lavendry after launder.]
†1. The action or process of washing. Obs.
a1530Heywood Play Weather (Brandl) 896 Excepte the sonne shyne that our clothes may dry, We can do ryght nought in our laundry. Ibid. 1100 Then came there a nother that lyueth by laundry. c1611Chapman Iliad xxii. 135 Where Trojan wives and their fair daughters had Laundry for their fine linen weeds. 1626Bacon Sylva §394 Chalkie Water is too fretting As it appeareth in Laundry of Clothes, which wear out apace, if you use such Water.
2. a. An apartment or establishment, where linen, etc. is washed and ‘got up’.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 13 Hyther also runnes the water from the Laundry to moist it the better. 1648Mayne Amorous War ii. iv, To starch, and to belong Unto their Laundries. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 51 The Wood-house, the Landry, and a pretty fine Garden. 1798Canning Elegy ii. in Anti-Jacobin 14 May (1852) 132 No story half so shocking By kitchen fire or laundry. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. ii. 89 Fair Lucy first, the laundry's grace and pride. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 194 Sample of refined Indian blue, for the laundry.
b. Articles (linen, etc.) that need to be, or that have been, laundered.
1916W. J. Locke Wonderful Year iii. 50 The proletariat hung laundry to dry over royal salamanders and proud escutcheons. Ibid. v. 67 Women below at the water's edge beat their laundry with lusty arms. 1965Which? Mar. 80/1 What we have done is to see how much it would cost to wash three different amounts of laundry each week, by each of these methods. 1970Laundry & Cleaning Internat. June/July 1/3 The traditional attitude—that the laundry is paid for from the housewife's weekly budget.
¶3. Used blunderingly for laundress.
1598Shakes. Merry W. i. ii. 5 There dwels one Mistris Quickly, which is in the manner of his Nurse, or his dry Nurse, or his Cooke, or his Laundry.
4. attrib., as laundry bag, laundry-battledore, laundry-blue, laundry-blue-bag, † laundry-house, laundry list (also fig.), laundry-maid, laundry-man, laundry mark, laundry room, laundry soap, laundry van, laundry-woman, laundry-work, laundry-worker.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 23/2 *Laundry Bag; size 14 × 25 inches; made from heavy figured drapery sateen, with white cotton drawing cord and tassels. 1971P. Purser Holy Father's Navy xi. 60, I shovelled my suit into a laundry bag to send to the cleaners.
a1668Davenant Play-ho. to Let Wks. (1673) 77 We'll make 'em bring Their *Laundry Battledores.
1899Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 6/1 Large supplies of..*laundry blue.
1880Plain Hints Needlework 33 Run a tape through the holes, and it will make a ‘*Laundry Blue-bag’.
1585Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) II. 108 To euerie of the maides of the *landerie house 2s. 6d.
1958Spectator 4 July 24/2 Mr. Wardle makes a point of dissociating himself from the *laundry-list species of biography-making. 1968Time 10 May 22 The at-large ballot is a bewildering laundry list of 75 names. 1972Fortune Jan. 3/1 As the archetype of U.S. corporations, General Motors is charged by its critics with primary responsibility for a laundry list of social ills, including air pollution, congestion in the cities, ugliness in the countryside, [etc.]. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Mar. 333/1 A huge panorama of names and dates, as dull as a laundry-list. 1975Radio Times 16 Jan. 5/4 Everybody knows..that there are exceptions to this laundry-list of woes, and that the author can be brilliantly served.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iv. i, I will..cry it through..every office of the *laundry-maids. 1855Mrs. Gaskell North & S. ix, She was no longer Peggy the laundry-maid, but Margaret Hale, the lady.
1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. List xlix. (1743) 162 The Matron is to take care of the Men's Linnen..& deliver it to the *Laundryman once a week. 1883Stevenson Silverado Squatters 14 There are the blacksmith's,..and Kong Sam Kee, the Chinese laundryman's.
1924G. S. Dougherty Criminal as a Human Being 278 An important factor in this work is a collection of *laundry marks. 1962‘J. Bell’ Crime in our Time ii. i. 22 The..police..overlooked a conspicuous laundry mark, 599, on some of the clothing. 1972L. Lamb Picture Frame xviii. 155 Laundry mark on shirt and maker's name on hand-made shoes.
1967J. Redgate Killing Season (1968) ii. vi. 102 There's a new *laundry-room just behind the kitchen. 1971Country Life 23 Dec. Suppl. 11/1 Unique single-story residence..kitchen, laundry room.
1937Discovery Feb. 49/1 The Great Geyser had practically ceased activity, and could not be stimulated to life, even with a hundred-weight of *laundry soap—the usual stimulant. 1958M. Dickens Man Overboard xii. 190 A homely smell compounded of many things, like roasting meat and leather and dogs and laundry soap.
1952M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke xv. 217 He and two other boys stole a *laundry van. 1972Guardian 5 Oct. 28/2 The laundry van in which Sapper Stewart died.
1863F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia 24 The eldest son of our *laundry-woman.
1838H. Martineau Retrospect of Western Travel II. 185 The 10th was Sunday... There was no *laundry-work going on. 1891Daily News 15 Dec. 6/2 There was possibility of a good deal of family laundry work arising. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 16 Aug. 360/2 The teacher must hold full diploma in Cookery, Laundrywork and Housewifery. 1963F. F. Laidler Gloss. Terms Home Econ. Educ. 52 Laundrywork, the washing and finishing of soiled fabrics.
1894E. Banks Campaigns of Curiosity 196 She did not consider me up to the mark for a *laundry-worker. 1906Westm. Gaz. 21 June 8/1 The attention of laundry-workers is drawn to this. 1975Times 15 Feb. 3/3 Greater London Council..suggested that the post of..‘laundry woman’ should become ‘laundry worker’.
Add:[2.] c. transf. and fig. An establishment where articles are modified to meet specific requirements, esp. one that launders (illegal) funds.
1965New Scientist 11 Nov. 406/3 Computer bureaux already exist which give the ‘laundry’ service to customers whose data is taken in by hand for processing. 1974National Rev. (U.S.) 18 Jan. 100/2 It will resort to the Mexican laundries and to other roundabout routes, preferably within the law. 1978N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Feb. 22/4 His Canadian and Bahamian companies provided a convenient ‘laundry’ for illegitimate mob money looking for a way to reach legitimate usage within the United States. 1982Times 2 Aug. 3/3 The union-funded Labour Research Department..accuses British United Industrialists..of acting as a ‘laundry’ for companies unhappy about contributing directly to Conservative funds. 1991Metalworking Production Sept. 31 This complete metal laundry can meet customers requirements with a comprehensive range of decorative and industrial paint finishes.
▪ II. laundry, v.|ˈlɔːndrɪ, ˈlɑːndrɪ|
[f. the n.]
= launder v. Hence ˈlaundrying vbl. n.
1880American Mail Order Fashions (1961) 14 The wires can be taken out..so that the entire bustle can be laundried with the greatest care. 1892Daily News 15 Sept. 5/5 The great Chinese national industry is laundrying. 1901D. Sladen In Sicily I. 152 The ditch in which they did their laundrying. 1919W. Deeping Second Youth xxvi. 224 No, he can't ask you to laundry his man's clothes. 1957B. & C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage 268/2 The verb is to launder, not to laundry. Clothes are laundered, not laundried. |