wash house

British  

noun

1. (formerly) a building or outbuilding in which laundry was done

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Example Sentences

A shipwreck, racehorse wash house and world-renowned department store Selfridges have been among the historic sites to have been given extra protection in 2020.

From BBC

Reiker said they were still waiting for the test results of the 160 non-clerical employees of the monastery, including nurses working at the monastery’s old people’s home, and others working at the monastery’s kitchen and wash house.

From Washington Times

“They went to decontamination, went into the wash house, were locked inside and Zyklon the gas came. In five to seven minutes, everyone was dead.”

From Seattle Times

In a film that ambitiously attempts to reconstruct the human shards of the past that have been largely left out of the historical record, “Mary Queen of Scots” builds up to a dramatic meeting in a remote wash house between Mary, now a fugitive from her own throne hiding in the English countryside, and the powerful cousin whose protection she needs.

From Los Angeles Times

Uninsulated cabins, called bunks, made of two-by-fours, sometimes without electricity or indoor plumbing, ringed a central wash house.

From New York Times