Home › Words › W › washhousewashhousewashhouse means A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.EtymologyFrom Old English wæsċhūs, equivalent to wash + house.nounA domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.e.g.“Now I'll see things walking a road that fifty other men would miss. I'll give you an instance, connected with the robbery of a wash-house copper."” — 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 218:A public laundry.A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room.A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes.e.g.“[…] the washhouses complied with the Factory and Workshops Act of 1907.” — 2000, Joseph R. Skoski, Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain, 1842-1914, page 124:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).