launder
verbEtymology Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandera, from Latin lavō (“to wash”).
1
To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
2
Obsolete To lave; to wet.
- Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
4
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
- Derived terms
- launderability, launderable, launderess, mislaunder, money laundering, relaunder, unlaundered
- Related terms
- launderer, launderette, laundress, laundry, lave