washing-machine

plural washing-machines

1. datedDated form of washing machine.

   Her laundry smacked against the porthole of her washing-machine.

   1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, Act of the Damned, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 14

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   As soon as Mahailey got used to a washing-machine or a churn, Ralph, to keep up with the bristling march of events, brought home a still newer one.

   1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 18

   ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I’ve just heard as how your washing-machine’s gone bung.’

   1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206

   The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.

   1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30

   The clatter from the kitchen was comforting. Edie, dealing with the breakfast dishes, loading the washing-machine with a weekend’s worth of dirty clothes, and talking to the dogs.

   1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 412