wash day
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- noun
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día de lavado
- She gives a little insight into her wash day routine, information on the expansion, a few details about the forthcoming blog, information on the networking event, and thank yous.
They weren't, they produced things The guy was saying, Do you have the wash day Blues?
- They weren't, they produced things The guy was saying, Do you have the wash day Blues?
Examples
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Wash day tomorrow.
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Tomorrow's wash day, anyway.
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I just had wash day.
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Wash day was, in some ways, his worst experience of an ordinary week.
Fiction book (2000) -
I love wash day, don't you?
Blog text (16) -
I never ever let it air dry ever because in my mind that would just be a waste of a wash day because would look horrible.
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I just have to figure out a way to adequately moisturize my hair before the next wash day.
Blog text (20) -
It is wash day.
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On Monday, the wash day, she offered to launder and iron Ken's clothes, and he, in turn, bought her a bottle of Dubonnet.
Fiction book (2001) -
Every Sunday is wash day, and I always have a pile of clothes to clean.
Synonyms
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A day, usually each week, when people wash clothes
A day when people in a home do their laundry
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a day designated for doing the household laundry' is directly and compositionally derived from 'wash' (the act of cleaning) plus 'day' (a day set aside for an activity). This noun+day compounding pattern (e.g., 'laundry day', 'market day') is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the phrase.
Etymology
Wash day comes from when families set aside one day to wash all their clothes, boiling water, scrubbing and hanging the laundry outside to dry. So wash day now means 'a day for doing the laundry'.