Laundry
['lɔːndrɪ] or ['lɔndri]
Definition
(noun.) workplace where clothes are washed and ironed.
(noun.) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.
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Definition
(n.) A laundering; a washing.
(n.) A place or room where laundering is done.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of laundering clothes, denotes struggles, but a final victory in winning fortune. If the clothes are done satisfactorily, then your endeavors will bring complete happiness. If they come out the reverse, your fortune will fail to procure pleasure. To see pretty girls at this work, you will seek pleasure out of your rank. If a laundryman calls at your house, you are in danger of sickness, or of losing something very valuable. To see laundry wagons, portends rivalry and contention.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A place where clothes are mangled.
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Examples
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This includes water for drinking, cooking, dish washing, bathing, laundry. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Description of Work done in a Modern Laundry. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Among modern devices in the laundry, worked by hand, is, first, the _washing-machine_, in which the principle is adapted of rolling over or kneading the clothes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Most of us are familiar with the rain barrel of the country house, and know that the housewife prefers rain water for laundry and general work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There was only one way--to make another nightgown exactly like it, before Saturday came, and brought the laundry-woman and her inventory to the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It seems that Tina is the child of the Frenchwoman who does the fine ironing in the laundry here. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We see no reason why every economical housewife should not profit by these simple methods of preparing cheap laundry soap, as they are the results of practical experience. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But even under these circumstances, a moderate use of washing powder is general in laundry work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She could hardly speak when she sat down at last, and told her mother that she was no longer Peggy the laundry-maid, but Margaret Hale the lady. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There was nobody in the laundry-room at that time; and I sat down there alone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In addition, the user is not confined to the laundry, but is free to seek the coolest part of the house, the only requisite being an electrical connection. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is an attractive sight to step into a modern laundry, operated with the latest machinery on the largest scale. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I walked straight into the laundry, where they are ironing most of the week, now that I have so many guests in the house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The trouble with our public laundries is that many of them are careless about this very fact, and do not take time to dissolve the powder before mixing it with the clothes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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