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See also: washing machine
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]washing-machine (plural washing-machines)
- 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.