Noun : Monday is always washday at our house. From Dictionary.com.
Sunday is washday for laundry and stripping the bed. From Wordnik.com. [Use A Cleaning Schedule To Conquer Messes | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
Let's all get together and forget those washday blues. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
How come I can never find a matching pair on washday - that's what I want to know?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
But over here, with coal and wood even scarcer, we drill on washday, whether or no. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
Ann: This is Monday, washday for some, rifle cleaning for some, and for the others, just another day to play. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference
On the TV, the quizmaster was saying, 'And now, for a streamlined washing machine that will make every washday a pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
White thin hair, white toothbrush mustache, and horn-rimmed spectacles ornamented a beaky face as wrinkled as a washday bundle. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Busy and active translates to a laundry load of jeans and utility pants for this tall, athletic woman energetically pantomiming her washday. From Wordnik.com. ["Desperate" to promote “lifestyle”] Reference
Automatic dryers, also introduced after the war, completed the transformation of washday (although only Westinghouse thought to gladden the laundry room in 1952 with a machine that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle) This brave new world of washing was made even easier with new cleaning agents. From Wordnik.com. [Household Appliances] Reference
This Johnnie lowered on a washday to his own easy reach. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
All days were alike to Martha, only of course Monday was washday. From Wordnik.com. [In Times Like These] Reference
They little thought that Monday would afterward be kept as washday. From Wordnik.com. [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference
Legacy Turns washday into something resembling a bumpy airplane ride, we're told. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This made it washday for Elizabeth and the tribe, and presently all the lines were full. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference
After carefully creasing the folds, pull the paper out slightly and put it in the tub for the next washday (Fig. 68). From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks' Handy Book] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Anderson Crow, Detective] Reference
A customer bought some gingham, on Joe's assurance that the colors were fast, but the first washday failed to confirm Joe's statement. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of California Life] Reference
She could eat nothing herself, and, when the table was cleared, prepared to do the week's washing, for Monday is always washday in Trumet. From Wordnik.com. [Keziah Coffin] Reference
This is the song Mrs. Bunny sang one morning as she set to work to wash her little rabbit's white duck trousers, for it was Monday, and that is washday in Rabbitville, so they tell me. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog] Reference
In the mile-away village of Hampton, there had been a veritable epidemic of burglaries -- ranging from the theft of a brand-new ash-can from the steps of the Methodist chapel to the ravaging of Mrs. Blauvelt's whole lineful of clothes, on a washday dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
What visions of dampness and disorder, of air malodorous with steam and soap, of meals delayed and hurriedly prepared, of tempers ruffled and the domestic machinery all disarranged and the discomforts of home prominently in the foreground, are called forth by that magic word -- washday!. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
She left her husband home to do the housework and today is washday -- that's the funny part of it! ". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
“Every Monday was washday,” Eva says, “and every woman, standing at the sink washing the clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Tessie and Pearlie] Reference
Liir had never seen an unclothed woman before, old or young — only little Nor on washday, lithe in the copper tub, when she’d been a girl of four or five. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
This goes back to when people had a hambone leftover from Sunday dinner, and Monday being washday, cooks needed a slow-simmering dish that didn’t call for a lot of fuss as they were cleaning clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Saved by red beans and rice | Homesick Texan] Reference
Monday is always washday at my house too. From Wordnik.com. [Monday is Wash Day] Reference
A few tools can make washday a little brighter. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Make washday a breeze with a tumble dryer. From Wordnik.com. [Which? Cars advice] Reference
A disorganized washday. From Wordnik.com. [Rose of Old Harpeth] Reference
"Happy little washday song!". From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
"And Monday is washday at the farmhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Old Mr. Crow] Reference
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