washday
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- noun
- /ˈwɔːʃdeɪ/
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día de lavado
- The wealthier a family, the more clothing they possessed; the longer they could stretch the time between washdays.
- washday on Monday
Examples
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Washday was Monday when water was heated and poured into the machine.
Blog text (34) -
Well, it's washday and you know how grumpy mama gets when she sees you gals lazing around.
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Chris was down there all the time, not hearing me because of the washing machine or furnace—it was Monday, washday; I should have known.
Fiction book (1994) -
On washdays when my mother said, "catch as catch can," we ate whatever we could eat raw in a bowl for breakfast and whatever we could get between two slices of bread for lunch, and reveled in the break of routine.
Fiction book (1994) -
Every Saturday is washday for our family, when we clean all our clothes.
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On washday, she always organizes her laundry by colors to prevent fading.
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It was a sunny Wednesday, perfect for washday, as the clothes would dry quickly outside.
Synonyms
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A day for doing the family's laundry
A day when people in a home do their laundry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Washday joins wash ('to clean') and day ('a day of the week'). It named the weekly day set aside for doing household laundry, so a washday is simply the day you do the laundry.