Dictionary

washhouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From Old English wæsċhūs, equivalent to wash + house.

Meanings

1. A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
   • 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, →OCLC, page 218:
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.
   • […] 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:

Forms

Relateds

washery · backhouse

Synonyms

sinkhouse

Translations (16)

fi pesutupa (a building used as a laundry) · de Waschhütte (a building used as a laundry) · de Lavoir (a building used as a laundry) · it lavatoio (a building used as a laundry) · pt tanque (a building used as a laundry) · mk перална (a building used as a laundry) · pt lavadoiro (a building used as a laundry) · fr lavoir (a building used as a laundry) · pt lavadouro (a building used as a laundry) · hsb płokarnja (a building used as a laundry) · da vaskehus (a building used as a laundry) · de Waschhaus (a building used as a laundry) · mk пералница (a building used as a laundry) · fi pesula (a building used as a laundry) · cho aboha nan aiachefa (a building used as a laundry) · es lavadero (a building used as a laundry)