laundry basket

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Etymology

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laundry + basket

Noun

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laundry basket (plural laundry baskets)

  1. A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.
    • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      Fortunately, Frank had devised a cool way of getting down the seemingly endless staircase. He’d found an old laundry basket, and with felt-tip pens had painted it with the colours of Queenie – red, white and blue. All he had to do was sit at the top of the staircase, and then let gravity take its course.

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