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laundry

noun
/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.

  1. derived from lavandaria
  2. derived from lavanderie
  3. inherited from lavendrie

Definitions

  1. A laundering

    A laundering; a washing.

    • In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.

  2. A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of…

    A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

    • Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.

  3. That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.

    • You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A penalty flag.

    2. A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.

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Derived

coin laundry, coin-operated laundry, coin-op laundry, dirty laundry, do the laundry, European laundry, laundry ball, laundry basket, laundry blue, laundry chute, laundry egg, laundryless, laundry line, laundry list, laundrymaid, laundryman, laundry-mark, laundry mark, laundrymat, laundry mat, laundryowner, laundry room, laundry sink, laundry soap, laundry sour, laundry stove, laundry tab, laundrywoman, Magdalene laundry, nonlaundry

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at laundry. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at laundry. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at laundry

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA