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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English lavendrye, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.

Laundry (clothes in the process of being laundered) hanging on a clothesline to dry.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
laundry (countable and uncountable, plural laundries)
- 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.
- You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
Synonyms[edit]
- (action): washing
- (place): lavatory, laundromat, washateria, laundrette
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from laundry
Translations[edit]
laundering; washing
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place or room where laundering is done
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that which needs to be laundered
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