Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A day set aside for doing household washing.
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- noun A day when
laundry iswashed .
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- noun a day set aside for doing household laundry
Etymologies
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Examples
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The result was a bunch of what Consumer Reports called 'washday wash-outs,' which left some clothes 'nearly as stained after washing as they were when we put them in.'
Come on New York Times—washers can be green and efficient 2011
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Sunday is washday for laundry and stripping the bed.
Use A Cleaning Schedule To Conquer Messes | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Ann: This is Monday, washday for some, rifle cleaning for some, and for the others, just another day to play.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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But no one knew what else to do with the stuff, so mostly it got dumped into streams, where it killed fish and made washday a nightmare.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Let's all get together and forget those washday blues.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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How come I can never find a matching pair on washday - that's what I want to know?
Wednesday Story: Socks David Hadley 2009
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Sunday is washday for laundry and stripping the bed.
Use A Cleaning Schedule To Conquer Messes | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The very idea of being harangued by your clothes – which have found their voice only so they can burst open a suitcase and criticize your washday skills – is bad enough, but later commercials had women criticizing men for their ring-around-the-collar, and doing so in a way that clearly intended they had become undesirable mating prospects, and would soon be torn to pieces by predators.
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How come I can never find a matching pair on washday - that's what I want to know?
Archive 2009-10-01 David Hadley 2009
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Automatic dryers, also introduced after the war, completed the transformation of washday (although only Westinghouse thought to gladden the laundry room in 1952 with a machine that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle) This brave new world of washing was made even easier with new cleaning agents.
Household Appliances 2008
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