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Laundromat orig. U.S.|ˈlɔːndrəʊmæt|
Also laundromat.
[See -mat.]
The proprietary name of a brand of automatic washing machines; also, by extension, a launderette.
1943Trade Marks Jrnl. 14 July 300/1 Laundromat. Domestic electric washing (laundering) machines. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company..Pennsylvania. 1951Amer. Speech XXVI. 166 The Westinghouse Company has a ‘Laundramat’, and there are also ‘Laundromats’—often called ‘Laundermats’ and ‘Laundrymats’—open for public patronage. 1955M. McCarthy Charmed Life (1956) i. 20 The village mind was still churning up the past, tossing the old dirty linen back and forth impersonally, like one of the washing machines in the new laundromat. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 148 Junior colleges, jet-plane factories, Laundromats, six-lane highways. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) iii. ii. 187, I..found nothing but laundromats, cleaners, soda fountains. 1963Punch 2 Jan. p. vi/2 Harrods' sale..includes..laundromats and dryers. 1964Economist 30 May 1024/3 Coin operated Laundromats and dry cleaning machines. 1966New Scientist 16 June 694/3 The ‘local’ is doomed, one day, to operate like a licensed laundromat. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 121 She found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 219 They drag out of a laundromat, shoe store, [etc.], every Zionist they can find. |