• Laundryless

    Origin

    From en + -laundry + -less.

    Full definition of laundryless

    Adjective

    laundryless

    1. Without laundry.
      • 1930, Council of Social Agencies, Philadelphia. Children's Department, Children, Preferred, Two bathing suits for each small guest proved an ample wardrobe, and we lived, during July in a laundryless world!
      • 1994 , Cheryl A. Brutvan, The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold , Sylvia Mangold's paintings of bare wooden floors 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.
      • 2011, Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Marriage, 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.
      • 2024, Sid Garza-Hillman, Ultrarunning for Normal People, 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.
    2. Lacking laundry facilities.
      • 2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, 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.
      • 2012, Matt Biers-Ariel, The Bar Mitzvah and Beast, Perched on stools at the Eureka Laundromat in the middle of a balmy day were laundryless people pitching quarters into slot machines.
      • 2015, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, 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 village
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