Examples of laundry

• Visiting laundries and tailors became slightly more popular for all groups of residents, except non-employed women.

• The pay in laundries is very poor, they can't afford to pay more, that is what they say.

• The labour press reported major strikes among women workers in a number of occupations including laundries and engineering works.

• Firms that usually just sell in these local markets include laundries, florist shops, hairdressers and bicycle-repair shops.

• Day-care centres for children, public laundries and canteens were to take over domestic tasks from the family.

• I hope she's going to fall in the laundry soon.

• Meals would be cooked, linen washed and clothes made and repaired by public caterers, laundry workers and needlewomen.

• Examples are coatings for hard surfaces in industry and domestic use, laundry hygiene and oral care products.