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laundry basket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
laundry basket
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A young porter stood in the corridor, a large laundry basket by his side.
▪ But her daughter lined a huge laundry basket for the infant, and wherever she went, the basket went with her.
▪ Iachimo had fallen into a laundry basket.
▪ Listen, this is not your personal laundry basket.
▪ She wore a swirling dress with something bright wrapped round the waist, and she carried a laundry basket.
▪ The teenager won't put her soiled clothing in the laundry basket as requested; they don't get washed.
▪ There were flowers on the table but no pants in the laundry basket.
Wiktionary
laundry basket

n. A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.

WordNet
laundry basket

n. a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried [syn: clothes hamper, clothes basket, voider]

Usage examples of "laundry basket".

I took a couple of long steps to the washer and dryer and grabbed the laundry basket.

I said, and dropped the cloth into the laundry basket with a small sigh.

The man who drove it delivered a big laundry basket at the back door of the house.

She fell silent as a pair of serving women approached up the hallway carrying a large wicker laundry basket with neatly folded bed linens bulging from the top.

Lee got up and went to the laundry basket and looked down at the babies.

But, much as you do in a dream, I decided to make the most of this situation, stuffing my old things into what looked like a laundry basket, discovering the knobs which caused hot and cold water to gush from the mouths of dolphins.