washing-machine

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English

Noun

washing-machine (plural washing-machines)

  1. Dated form of washing machine.
    • 1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 18:
      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.
    • 1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206:
      ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I’ve just heard as how your washing-machine’s gone bung.’
    • 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:
      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.
    • 1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 412:
      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.
    • 1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, Act of the Damned, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 14:
      Her laundry smacked against the porthole of her washing-machine.

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