Crossword clues for washhouse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Washhouse \Wash"house`\, n. An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
Wiktionary
n. A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry
WordNet
n. a building or outbuilding where laundry is done
Usage examples of "washhouse".
Don Ashton had said the washhouse was outside the inn beyond the kitchen.
I had been up since well before dawn, carrying hot water to the guest rooms and carrying away slops jars, climbing up ladders to scrub soot from lamp glass and replace burned-down candles, hauling baskets of clean linen from the washhouse to the far-flung linen rooms, carrying in back-breaking loads of firewood, carrying out endless buckets of hot ashes, and washing away thousands of muddy boot prints from the tile floors.
I streaked through the cavernous washhouse and the billowing heat of the kitchens, across the bustling kitchen courtyard, past storehouses and workshops, and through the iron gate that led to the winter-blighted wasteland of the palace kitchen gardens.
Reaching the doors used by the serving staff closest to their own rooms, Nicholas opened it just as a pair of the palace serving girls approached from within carrying bundles of linens bound for the washhouse behind the palace.
At the far end Joseph saw what looked like a brick-walled washhouse and a latrine.
Rowena was crossing the bailey to the washhouse, her arms piled high with linens.
I saw them three kookaburras last night on the washhouse roof, hoohooing like devils.
As for Jakes and his wife, the only servants on the place, they occupied a room over the washhouse, which was separate from the main building.
He led Matt to a washhouse where they joined a line of men and women waiting for a turn at the wash-basins.
It was wash day and the smell of soap and boiling linen from the washhouse in the back filled the low-ceilinged taproom.
Over the eleven years he had lived there the cottage had grown to twice its size with the addition of a washhouse, a cow byre and a stable, and all built lovingly with the stones he and his wife had gathered from the hillside.
She thought she might feel better if she had a wash, and opened the door to find the black washhouse, when Micah came to her.
Then there is the slanted door down to the cellar, and at the end of the yard, a small chicken run and the washhouse.