laundryless

English

Etymology

laundry +‎ -less

Adjective

laundryless (not comparable)

1. Without laundry.
   • 1930, Council of Social Agencies, Philadelphia. Children's Department, Children, Preferred, page 47:

     Two bathing suits for each small guest proved an ample wardrobe, and we lived, during July in a laundryless world!

   • 1994, Cheryl A. Brutvan, The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, page 25:

     Sylvia Mangold's paintings of bare wooden floors [though sometimes defiled by a pile of dirty laundry] have the clarity and innocence of hope. […] When Mangold paints a laundryless floor, it exudes the peace and quiet of being left alone in the morning light.

   • 2011, Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Marriage:

     Ironically, the detergent industry-sponsored "soap operas" that are central to modern afternoon television programming promise (mostly) female viewers both relief from drudgery and escape into the dramatic, crisis-filled on-air world of (laundryless) marriages, adulteries, and other relationships.

   • 2024, Sid Garza-Hillman, Ultrarunning for Normal People:

     Before any purging or organizing, let's tackle any remaining laundry (and put it away!) so you can start with a clean and laundryless slate.

2. Lacking laundry facilities.
   • 2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, page 282:

     In 1916, Alice Austin designed Llano del Rio, a socialist city of 10,000 residents of Los Angeles comprising laundryless and kitchenless homes connected by subterranean tunnels to central facilities for rapid delivery of finished laundry and meals.

   • 2012, Matt Biers-Ariel, The Bar Mitzvah and Beast, page 79:

     Perched on stools at the Eureka Laundromat in the middle of a balmy day were laundryless people pitching quarters into slot machines.

   • 2015, Suzanne Marrs, ‎Tom Nolan, Meanwhile There Are Letters:

     Last week some fifty of his friends here celebrated the birthday of W.H> Ferry, his 65th, by [drinking] and contributing money towards a coin-operated laundry for a laundryless southwestern village