laundryless
adjEtymology From laundry + -less.
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Without laundry.
- Two bathing suits for each small guest proved an ample wardrobe, and we lived, during July in a laundryless world!1930, Council of Social Agencies, Philadelphia. Children's Department, Children, Preferred, page 47:
- Sylvia Mangold's paintings of bare wooden floors [though sometimes defiled by a pile of dirty laundry] have the clarity and innocence of hope. […] When Mangold paints a laundryless floor, it exudes the peace and quiet of being left alone in the morning light.1994, Cheryl A. Brutvan, The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, page 25:
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- Ironically, the detergent industry-sponsored "soap operas" that are central to modern afternoon television programming promise (mostly) female viewers both relief from drudgery and escape into the dramatic, crisis-filled on-air world of (laundryless) marriages, adulteries, and other relationships.2011, Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Marriage:
- Before any purging or organizing, let's tackle any remaining laundry (and put it away!) so you can start with a clean and laundryless slate.2024, Sid Garza-Hillman, Ultrarunning for Normal People:
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Lacking laundry facilities.
- In 1916, Alice Austin designed Llano del Rio, a socialist city of 10,000 residents of Los Angeles comprising laundryless and kitchenless homes connected by subterranean tunnels to central facilities for rapid delivery of finished laundry and meals.2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, page 282:
- Perched on stools at the Eureka Laundromat in the middle of a balmy day were laundryless people pitching quarters into slot machines.2012, Matt Biers-Ariel, The Bar Mitzvah and Beast, page 79:
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- Last week some fifty of his friends here celebrated the birthday of W.H> Ferry, his 65th, by [drinking] and contributing money towards a coin-operated laundry for a laundryless southwestern village2015, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Meanwhile There Are Letters: