HOW TO PRONOUNCE
laundry
/ˈlɔndɹi/
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What does laundry mean?
noun
- A laundering; a washing.
- A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (slang) A penalty flag.
- A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlɔndɹi/
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The dancing pavilion was put up near the Danish laundry, on a vacant lot surrounded by tall, arched cottonwood trees.
This woman, we are further informed, kept cows, chickens, and lodgers, and earned additional money by doing laundry and charwork.
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A revelation of this attitude was made one day in a conversation which the inspector heard vigorously carried on in a laundry.
You would hardly think, would you, that a poor woman who worked in a laundry could be much of a friend to them?
While at work under a revolving shaft in a laundry the wind blew her hair and it was caught in the shaft.