What is "launderette"

Usage examples of "launderette".

The door of the launderette was pushed open and a youth, embalmed against the cold, appeared.

Savage watched her go and then returned into the warm, damp, launderette and closed the door.

When he left the launderette Notting Hill was vacant except for a delivery truck and two taxis idling at the traffic lights, their drivers conversing in shouts.

Big front-page photos of the launderette, with the sprawled dead men and blood splashed everywhere, had made a memorable impression upon the newspaper-reading public.

Bret, after a lifetime behind a desk, to grab a gun, rush into that launderette and try his hand at the sharp end.

For Bret everything suggested that the contact with the KGB team in the launderette would be mere routine.

One minute he was sitting next to Bernard in an all-night launderette in Hampstead, and the next minute he was in the middle of one of the most horrifying nightmares of his entire life.

Positioned in the street outside the launderette there were enough men to warn Bret of their approach and should Bret decide that they must be arrested enough men to hold them.

One of the KGB men had been hiding upstairs, in a room above the launderette, and when he came in unexpectedly he was brandishing a sawn-off shotgun.

Bret was suddenly left in the launderette watching the young KGB man die, vomiting and bleeding and mewling like a baby.

Unfortunately, sitting in a launderette for any length of time makes it difficult to avoid the sort of people who insist on talking to you.

I considered offering to take them to the launderette, but I did not want to put his clothes in the same machine as mine.

I like to go out by half past eight so I can be at the launderette before it gets crowded.

I rang Sandra on the way to the launderette, having taken the precaution of arming myself with a supply of change for the telephone.

Two years ago I could not even go to the launderette because Christmas fell on a Saturday.