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Washing day   /wˈɑʃɪŋ deɪ/   Listen
Washing day

noun
1.
A day set aside for doing household laundry.  Synonym: washday.






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"Washing day" Quotes from Famous Books



... have another washing day; The decadents decay; the pedants pall; And H.G. Wells has found that children play. And Bernard Shaw discovered that they squall; Rationalists are growing rational— And through thick woods one finds a stream astray, So secret that the very ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton

... the sandy road and got hisself washed away and drowned. So the boys fetched grapplings and went out immadient to drag for the body, but Jimmy took another notion. He rigged up a tremenjous long pole, like your mawther's clothes' prop on washing day and tied a string to the top of it, and baited the end of the string with an empty bottle of Ould Tom, and then sat hisself down on the end of the jetty, same as a man that's going fishing. 'Lord-a-massy, Jemmy,' says the boys, looking ...
— Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon - 1893 • Hall Caine

... hard on the track of his Satanic antagonist, the Tinker had driven off to buy fresh provisions, and I sat watching Diana's dripping hands and shapely brown arms where she scrubbed, wrung out, and hung up to dry certain of our garments, for it was washing day. ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol



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