| 单词 | in the wash |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to be lost, damaged, etc.) in the wash a. An act, spell, or task of washing clothes or other textile articles; the process of washing undergone by clothes or the like. (to be lost, damaged, etc.) in the wash, in course of being washed. (to be) at the wash, of clothes, etc., sent away to be washed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] scouring1464 washing1480 wash1704 handwashing1793 dobeying1929 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > being washed [phrase] at (the) washinga1637 (to be) at the wash1813 (to be lost, damaged, etc.) in the wash1876 c1050 Glosses on De Consuetudine Monachorum in Anglia XIII. 441 Vestimentorum ablutio, reafa wæsc.] 1704 London Gaz. No. 3981/4 Stolen..Wearing Linen from the Wash. 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 56 The packet arrived at so late an hour..and our shirts being at the wash as usual, we did not leave Lisbon till the 20th. 1814 Family Politics iv. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 230 I was going to pull it [a gown] to pieces for the wash. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. iii. 30 It returned from the wash. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. viii. 133 Ah, you're a-staring at the pocket-handkerchiefs... We've just looked 'em out ready for the wash. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xli. 23 This objection, and a great many others, founded upon certain articles of dress being at the wash,..were overcome by Kit. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xi. 85 Mrs. Bute, who knew how many days the sirloin of beef lasted at the Hall; how much linen was got ready at the great wash [etc.]. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. i. 13 Though she may have done a hard day's wash. 1876 E. Jenkins Blot on Queen's Head 26 You mark their linen ‘Empress's Crown Hotel’, and our linen ‘Queen's Inn’... What if they get mixed in the wash? < as lemmas |
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