wash-housen.
/ˈwɒʃhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈwɔʃˌhaʊs/, /ˈwɑʃˌhaʊs/ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > place for bathing > bath-house
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baina1513
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bathing-house1598
public bath1611
bagnio1615
balneo1659
bath house1705
c1000 O.E. Glosses in Ztschr. f. deutsches Altertum XXXI. 13 Colimbum, wæschus.
1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans vi. 47 They have many Hammams or Wash-houses to bath themselves in.
2.
a. An outbuilding or apartment used for washing clothes.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done
lavendry1377
washing-house14..
bucking-stoke1483
laundry1577
wash-house1577
laundry-house1585
bucking-house1597
wash-yardc1625
lavatory1661
buck-house1738
woman-house1754
wash-kitchen1838
water-shed1859
washery1875
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 13 There is also a thirde stie, not farre from the washouse, for the fatting of my Porkes.
1580 in Archaeologia 64 358 To set upp the gat at the washouse.
1671 T. Lacy in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1913) 4th Ser. 350 I..saw a little shedd or washouse all on fire.
1753 J. Collier Art Tormenting (1811) i. i. 36 In the wash-house or the scullery.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 163 Four beautiful rooms and a delightful little wash-house at the end of the passage.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxv. 264 We keep a boy to do the dirty work, and a gal besides, but they dine in the washus.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvi. 508 The Rev. Mr. Veal had..a theatre (in the wash-house).
1916 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 191/1 A large shed—that had at one time been used as a wash house—still contained some broken wash-tubs.
b. A building in which goods are washed in the process of bleaching, or calico printing.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > building for washing
wash-house1701
1701 London Gaz. No. 3760/4 A House, and Ground fit for a Whitster, or Callico-Printer, is to be Let, with several Sheds and Wash-houses.
c. U.S. An establishment at which clothes are washed; a laundry.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done > a commercial laundry
wash-house1856
Chinese laundry1881
bagwash1937
1856 Democratic State Jrnl. (Sacramento, Calif.) 4 Aug. 3/2 There is a washhouse on Font street which seems to imbue its occupants with a desire to quarrel.
1873 B. Harte Episode of Fiddletown 28 The next day he entered the wash-house of Chy Fook as an assistant.
d. A building, provided with suitable accommodation, at which the public may wash clothes.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done > public wash-house
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steamie1926
c1806 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) I. iv. 236 In the middle of the field is a wash-house, whither the inhabitants of this large town [sc. Glasgow], rich and poor, send or carry their linen to be washed.
1846 Act 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74 §1 To encourage the Establishment therein of public Baths and Wash-houses.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany v. 49 Public washhouses have been established in many places.
1912 Throne 7 Aug. 206/2 A local borough councillor..who points with pride to the new borough wash~houses.
e. Aeronautics slang. The region occupied by the clouds.
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1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xix. 336 I..preferred to avoid the so-called ‘wash-house’ and go above the clouds.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 52 I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. l. 243 Charley and I made our lucky up the wash'us chimney.
1901 Daily Chron. 4 Dec. 9/2 Engineer and Washhouse-man required [in a steam laundry].
1909 ‘Q’ True Tilda xx Run, Hepsy, and fill the wash-house boiler.
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