laundry

noun, plural laun·dries.

1. articles of clothing, linens, etc., that have been or are to be washed.
2. a business establishment where clothes, linens, etc., are laundered.
3. a room or area, as in a home or apartment building, reserved for doing the family wash.

noun plural -dries

1. a place where clothes and linen are washed and ironed
2. the clothes or linen washed and ironed
3. the act of laundering

n.late 14c., “place for washing;” mid-15c. “act of washing,” from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria, plural of lavandarium “things to be washed,” from lavare “to wash” (see lave). As a verb, from 1880. Laundry list in figurative sense is from 1958. see wash one’s dirty linen (laundry).