| 单词 | laundry |
| 释义 | laundry (once / 1770 pages) n Laundry refers to the clothes and bedding that you can wash in your washing machine or at the laundromat. Nothing smells quite as good as clean laundry. When you do your laundry, you wash your dirty clothes, as well as any towels, sheets, and other linens that could use a wash too. A laundry room is the place in an apartment building, business, or dormitory where there are washers and dryers. Sometimes people send their laundry out to a commercial laundry, where they pay someone else to wash their things. Laundry has a Latin root, lavare, "to wash." WORD FAMILYlaundry: laundries+/launder: laundered, laundering, launders, laundry/laundering: launderings USAGE EXAMPLESIt was Don who transformed the establishment into the laundry equivalent of a trendy nightclub’s velvet-roped VIP area. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) “Laundry baskets” of letters arrived for him daily, Leah said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) He works at a coin-op laundry, while his wife, 49, is a babysitter, a midwife and a nanny. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering Syn|Hyper wash, washables, washing garment an article of clothing household linen, white goodsdrygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth 2n workplace where clothes are washed and ironed Hypo|Hyper Laundromat, launderette a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers washhousea building or outbuilding where laundry is done work, workplace a place where work is done |
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