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laun⋅dry

  [lawn-dree, lahn-]
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–noun, plural -dries.
1. articles of clothing, linens, etc., that have been or are to be washed.
2. a business establishment where clothes, linens, etc., are laundered.
3. a room or area, as in a home or apartment building, reserved for doing the family wash.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME lavandrie < MF lavanderie. See launder, -y 3
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laun·dry   (lôn'drē, län'-)   
n.   pl. laun·dries
  1. Soiled or laundered clothes and linens; wash.
    1. A commercial establishment for laundering clothes or linens.
    2. A room or an area, as in a house, for doing the wash.

[Middle English lavendrye, laundry, from Old French lavanderie, from lavandier; see launder.]
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Laundry

Laun"dry\, n.; pl. Laundries. [OE. lavendrie, OF. lavanderie. See Launder.]

1. A laundering; a washing.

2. A place or room where laundering is done.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : laundry
Spanish: lavandería,
German: die Wäscherei,
Japanese: クリーニング屋
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laundry 
c.1530, from O.Fr. lavanderie, from L. lavendaria, pl. of lavandarium "things to be washed," from lavare "to wash" (see lave). The verb launder "to wash linen" is from 1664; criminal banking sense first recorded 1961, from notion of making dirty money seem clean; brought to widespread use during Watergate scandal, 1973. Laundry list in figurative sense is from 1958. Laundromat is from 1943, originally a proprietary name by Westinghouse.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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laundry

see wash one's dirty linen (laundry).

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