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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

laundry

/ˈlɔndɹi/

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What does laundry mean?

noun

  1. A laundering; a washing.
  2. A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
  3. That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. (slang) A penalty flag.
  2. A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈlɔndɹi/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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The dancing pavilion was put up near the Danish laundry, on a vacant lot surrounded by tall, arched cottonwood trees.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242
This woman, we are further informed, kept cows, chickens, and lodgers, and earned additional money by doing laundry and charwork.
Margaret SangerThe Pivot of CivilizationProject Gutenberg ebook #1689
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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.
Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #1325
You would hardly think, would you, that a poor woman who worked in a laundry could be much of a friend to them?
Sara Cone BryantStories to Tell to ChildrenProject Gutenberg ebook #473
While at work under a revolving shaft in a laundry the wind blew her hair and it was caught in the shaft.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747