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plural washhouses
A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry. quotations examples
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."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 218
A public laundry. examples
(New Zealand) A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room. examples
(UK, historical) A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes. quotations
[…] the washhouses complied with the Factory and Workshops Act of 1907.
2000, Joseph R. Skoski, Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain, 1842-1914, page 124