Слово "laundry". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

I went into our little laundry room and took a dirty sheet out of the basket and cried into that.

Get my stuff down to the laundry.

Don'tcha ever send them to the laundry?"

Marie was her daughter, about twenty, weak and thin; she had been consumptive for a long time, but she kept going from house to house, hiring herself out by the day to do heavy work—scrubbing floors, washing laundry, sweeping yards, tending cattle.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

'Imagine my astonishment,' the guest in the black cap whispered, 'when I put my hand in the basket of dirty laundry and, lo and behold, it had the same number as in the newspaper.