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单词 launderette
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Definition of launderette in English:

launderette

(also laundrette)
noun lɔːnˈdrɛtlɔːndəˈrɛtˌlɔnd(ə)ˈrɛt
British
  • An establishment with coin-operated washing machines and dryers for public use.

    (投币式)自动洗衣店

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The plainclothes policewoman strikes up a conversation with a group of women suspects in the estate's launderette but does not say who she is.
    • Clean spread sheets were easy to maintain in his first overseas bank because it was in a converted London launderette.
    • The town has been without a dry cleaning and laundry business for several years so we were all very pleased to announce the arrival of a laundrette and dry cleaners at Main Street.
    • The inevitable happened: it split, disgorging various grubby items onto the road that should have remained a secret between me and the service wash woman at the laundrette.
    • The installation of an industrial tumble dryer means no more trips to the launderette on Skye, an hour away.
    • The development is due for completion in autumn of next year, when it will include a residents' gym and launderette.
    • At ground level is a mix of shops, cafes, professional chambers, launderettes and similar communal services, and flats.
    • He took his dirty clothes to the local laundrette then threw them in the machine and filled it with powder.
    • Hundreds of people suddenly converge on a laundrette and silently stare at a washing-machine while eating bananas.
    • As for the commercial tenant you mention, is it the laundrette in the basement, or the windowless room for the telemarketing company?
    • A few days ago a 30-cover restaurant opened its doors in the former laundrette.
    • Your employer would have to provide a little on-site launderette, but that is a small price to pay for keeping staff happy.
    • We reached the launderette, and I knocked on the blue door by the side.
    • Excellent, I won't need to use that bloody launderette ever again.
    • Then she moved to Bruff, bought a service station and a small shop and built a supermarket, hairdressers and launderette.
    • The resolution of this decision faded slightly when I saw her, and even more so when I finally stepped into the laundrette and bathed in her smile.
    • Applicants are invited for a convenience store, pharmacy, bank, crèche, coffee shop, sandwich bar, hair salon, mobile phone outlet, launderette and restaurant.
    • Alex made her way home, collected her laundry and set out to the local laundrette, her mind churning around the pro's and con's of going to Edinburgh for 6 weeks.
    • When I was born in 1952, my mother was living in a flat above a launderette in Ellum Broadway.
    • There's no doctor's surgery as yet and I can confirm that all of the families appear to have their own washing machines so it looks like there'll be no launderette either.
    • While waiting for my laundry in the Lost Sock launderette I decided to go exploring.
    • A new laundrette will soon be opened in Emmett Street where the Credit Union first did business.
    • Shared facilities might include, as they do elsewhere, launderette, child-minding facilities, dining and open space.
    • It includes a bar, restaurant, function room, two suites for meetings, an office, launderette and 26 bedrooms.
    • I had left the university and I was writing and he used to take me around to his laundrettes in his car.
    • And he had a little hole in the wall which in daytime was a drycleaning and a laundrette.
    • One convenience we would have liked to see onboard was a self-service launderette - particularly in light of the ship's longer itineraries.
    • If there's no washing machine, you may have to venture to the underworld which is the laundrette.
    • He had picked up a bag full of towels instead of the team's kit-bag when he went to the laundrette.
    • Once, when living in a bedsit, I did venture into a laundrette but had a distressing experience with my white underwear and a pair of maroon socks.
    • They run the country's largest and busiest launderette, in Glasgow.
    • While waiting for all this to occur, we'll haul our clothes to the neighbourhood laundrette.
    • That's right its a laundrette which emails you when your washing is done so you can go and get it.
    • The other building is known as the Old Laundry and used to be a laundrette for Phipps Bridge residents.
    • I have my own washing machine, cooker and telephone - and therefore do not need to spend inordinate amounts of time in launderettes, cafes and public phone boxes.
    • If enough parents are interested she is also considering setting-up a nappy laundering service through local launderettes.
    • The fully managed complex will include a manager's office, reception area, coffee dock, shop, launderette and security office.
    Synonyms
    washroom, laundry room, dry cleaner's, public wash house, chinese laundry

Rhymes

abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette

Definition of launderette in US English:

launderette

(also laundrette)
nounˌlɔnd(ə)ˈrɛtˌlônd(ə)ˈret
British
  • A laundromat.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While waiting for my laundry in the Lost Sock launderette I decided to go exploring.
    • The town has been without a dry cleaning and laundry business for several years so we were all very pleased to announce the arrival of a laundrette and dry cleaners at Main Street.
    • The development is due for completion in autumn of next year, when it will include a residents' gym and launderette.
    • Alex made her way home, collected her laundry and set out to the local laundrette, her mind churning around the pro's and con's of going to Edinburgh for 6 weeks.
    • He had picked up a bag full of towels instead of the team's kit-bag when he went to the laundrette.
    • The plainclothes policewoman strikes up a conversation with a group of women suspects in the estate's launderette but does not say who she is.
    • If there's no washing machine, you may have to venture to the underworld which is the laundrette.
    • Clean spread sheets were easy to maintain in his first overseas bank because it was in a converted London launderette.
    • There's no doctor's surgery as yet and I can confirm that all of the families appear to have their own washing machines so it looks like there'll be no launderette either.
    • That's right its a laundrette which emails you when your washing is done so you can go and get it.
    • He took his dirty clothes to the local laundrette then threw them in the machine and filled it with powder.
    • Then she moved to Bruff, bought a service station and a small shop and built a supermarket, hairdressers and launderette.
    • I had left the university and I was writing and he used to take me around to his laundrettes in his car.
    • Your employer would have to provide a little on-site launderette, but that is a small price to pay for keeping staff happy.
    • Hundreds of people suddenly converge on a laundrette and silently stare at a washing-machine while eating bananas.
    • We reached the launderette, and I knocked on the blue door by the side.
    • The fully managed complex will include a manager's office, reception area, coffee dock, shop, launderette and security office.
    • It includes a bar, restaurant, function room, two suites for meetings, an office, launderette and 26 bedrooms.
    • They run the country's largest and busiest launderette, in Glasgow.
    • Once, when living in a bedsit, I did venture into a laundrette but had a distressing experience with my white underwear and a pair of maroon socks.
    • One convenience we would have liked to see onboard was a self-service launderette - particularly in light of the ship's longer itineraries.
    • The inevitable happened: it split, disgorging various grubby items onto the road that should have remained a secret between me and the service wash woman at the laundrette.
    • Shared facilities might include, as they do elsewhere, launderette, child-minding facilities, dining and open space.
    • The resolution of this decision faded slightly when I saw her, and even more so when I finally stepped into the laundrette and bathed in her smile.
    • Excellent, I won't need to use that bloody launderette ever again.
    • If enough parents are interested she is also considering setting-up a nappy laundering service through local launderettes.
    • The other building is known as the Old Laundry and used to be a laundrette for Phipps Bridge residents.
    • The installation of an industrial tumble dryer means no more trips to the launderette on Skye, an hour away.
    • While waiting for all this to occur, we'll haul our clothes to the neighbourhood laundrette.
    • As for the commercial tenant you mention, is it the laundrette in the basement, or the windowless room for the telemarketing company?
    • And he had a little hole in the wall which in daytime was a drycleaning and a laundrette.
    • A new laundrette will soon be opened in Emmett Street where the Credit Union first did business.
    • I have my own washing machine, cooker and telephone - and therefore do not need to spend inordinate amounts of time in launderettes, cafes and public phone boxes.
    • At ground level is a mix of shops, cafes, professional chambers, launderettes and similar communal services, and flats.
    • When I was born in 1952, my mother was living in a flat above a launderette in Ellum Broadway.
    • A few days ago a 30-cover restaurant opened its doors in the former laundrette.
    • Applicants are invited for a convenience store, pharmacy, bank, crèche, coffee shop, sandwich bar, hair salon, mobile phone outlet, launderette and restaurant.
    Synonyms
    washroom, laundry room, dry cleaner's, public wash house, chinese laundry
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