washday
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of washday
Example Sentences
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Tide, the washday miracle, cleanest washes you can get.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
A few years ago, he even took his red beans and rice show on the road, cooking the classic Monday washday dish in several states essentially from the back of his car.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2014
Yet McGill could also write warmly of "the acrid, nostalgic smell of wood burning beneath the weekly washday pots; the pine-and-oak smoke from chimneys of farmhouses fighting with the smell of wet-plowed earth."
From Time Magazine Archive
Those 30 years go all the way back to a now famous singing radio commercial: "Rinso White, Rinso Bright, happy little washday song."
From Time Magazine Archive
She could eat nothing herself, and, when the table was cleared, prepared to do the week's washing, for Monday is always washday in Trumet.
From Keziah Coffin by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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