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单词 laundering
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launderingn.

Etymology: < launder v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈlaundering.
The process or action of washing, drying, and ironing linen, etc. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > washing, drying and ironing
laundering1894
1894 To-Day 17 Mar. 182/2 French cambrics..are not to be starched in the laundering, but left soft.
1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 299 Collars—clean ones, too, exceptional in Bohemia, laundering being expensive.
1902 Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 7/2 Laundering of embroidery on washable materials is much simpler than when silk is used.
1908 K. Grahame Wind in Willows x. 221 I'm in the washing and laundering line, you must know, ma'am.
1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four ii. x. 221 Her life had been laundering, scrubbing, darning, cooking, sweeping, polishing, mending, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grand-children.
1970 Which? Aug. 247/2 Many people were uninformed about certain aspects of laundering.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Apr. 1/8 Mr. Kerr, who rose in the Legislature to answer Dr. Shulman's question last Friday about laundering of money in Ontario, began by saying, ‘The washing or laundering of funds does occur in Toronto.’
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Apr. 1/8 The laundering transaction itself is not illegal.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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