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wash-house|ˈwɒʃhaʊs|
Also 6–7 washouse, 9 vulgar washus, wash'us.
[f. wash v. + house n. Cf. Du. waschhuis, G. waschhaus.]
†1. A bath-house. Obs. rare.
c1000O.E. Glosses in Ztschr. f. deutsches Altertum XXXI. 13 Colimbum, wæschus. 1704J. Pitts Acc. Moham. 47 They have many Hammams, or Wash-houses to bath themselves in.
2. a. An outbuilding or apartment used for washing clothes.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. 13 There is also a thirde stie, not farre from the washouse, for the fatting of my Porkes. 1580in Archæologia LXIV. 358 To set upp the gat at the washouse. 1671T. Lacy in Extr. St. Papers rel. Friends iv. (1913) 350, I..saw a little shedd or washouse all on fire. 1753J. Collier Art Torment. i. i. (1811) 36 In the wash-house or the scullery. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Mistaken Milliner, Four beautiful rooms, and a delightful little washhouse at the end of the passage. 1837― Pickw. xxv, We keep a boy to do the dirty work, and a gal besides, but they dine in the washus. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvi, The Rev. Mr. Veal had..a theatre (in the wash-house). 1916Blackw. Mag. Aug. 191/1 A large shed—that had at one time been used as a wash house—still contained some broken wash-tubs.
b. A building in which goods are washed in the process of bleaching, or calico printing.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3760/4 A House, and Ground fit for a Whitster, or Callico-Printer, is to be Let, with several Sheds and Wash-houses.
c. U.S. An establishment at which clothes are washed; a laundry.
1856Democratic State Jrnl. (Sacramento, Calif.) 4 Aug. 3/2 There is a washhouse on Font street which seems to imbue its occupants with a desire to quarrel. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown 28 The next day he entered the wash-house of Chy Fook as an assistant.
d. A building, provided with suitable accommodation, at which the public may wash clothes.
c1806D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) I. iv. 236 In the middle of the field is a wash-house, whither the inhabitants of this large town [sc. Glasgow], rich and poor, send or carry their linen to be washed. 1846Act 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74 §1 To encourage the Establishment therein of public Baths and Wash-houses. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 49 Public washhouses have been established in many places. 1912Throne 7 Aug. 206/2 A local borough councillor..who points with pride to the new borough wash⁓houses.
3. attrib.
1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Parish v, I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. 1838― O. Twist l, Charley and I made our lucky up the wash'us chimney. 1901Daily Chron. 4 Dec. 9/2 Engineer and Washhouse-man required [in a steam laundry]. 1909‘Q’ (Quiller-Couch) True Tilda xx, Run, Hepsy, and fill the wash-house boiler. |