washday

/wosh-dey, wawsh-/US // ˈwɒʃˌdeɪ, ˈwɔʃ- //UK // (ˈwɒʃˌdeɪ) //

洗涤日,洗澡日,洗脸日,洗手日

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : the day set apart in a household for washing clothes: Monday is always washday at our house.

Growing up, Richardson absorbed washday secrets from an extended family of women and he learned the appeal of laundry hung on a line outside.
After carefully creasing the folds, pull the paper out slightly and put it in the tub for the next washday (Fig. 68).
But over here, with coal and wood even scarcer, we drill on washday, whether or no.
They little thought that Monday would afterward be kept as washday.
And Mrs. Ducker calls to see Ma nearly every washday now, just when she's busiest, and so Pa has to sit and entertain her.
It is washday all the week round, for a change of clothing is scarce among the poor.