washhouse

English

Etymology

wash + house

Noun

washhouse (plural washhouses)

  1. A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 218:
      Now I'll see things walking a road that fifty other men would miss. I'll give you an instance, connected with the robbery of a wash-house copper."
  2. A public laundry.
  3. (New Zealand) A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room.
  4. (UK, historical) A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes.
    • 2000, Joseph R. Skoski, Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain, 1842-1914, page 124:
      [] the washhouses complied with the Factory and Workshops Act of 1907.

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