washday old-fashioned
washing day old-fashioned

The week started at around six on a Monday morning washday.

Why do they build such small sculleries which make washday a dread.

But with the Splash, the plastics are of washday pants quality front and rear.

But she was staying for weeks, after all, and given the weather, couldn't count on regular washdays.

Then, an electric washing machine lightened the burden of washday.

There'll be no holding on to those pants on washday."

Quick, how do you say "washday miracle" in Mandarin?

Only next washday it's my turn, you hear?"

As this was washday, ropes tied to trees were hung with clothes like banners in the failing light.

Libraries were omnipresent, like tap water, washdays on Monday and park attendants who shouted at children.

And every morning she went to a public pipe and drew four pails of water for her mother - more if it was a washday.

Farther along is a waterfall providing a pleasant washday picnic spot for many Tibetans.

Those two days were given over to a repeat of their washday, and to brave attempts to revive one another's faltering spirits.

An Oxford painter's wife paid her mother a half crown a week for coming to help on washday: 'a little bit of pin money.

The fax and E-mail, of course, must be blessings as priceless to today's business world as the new washday miracle was to me in 1954.

How greatly had the mighty fallen: 'Monday is washday.

But adding an "enjoy cycle" to the process of doing laundry is a washday promise that not everyone thinks is worth making.

Everyone around here referred to it as George Birthington's Washday.

When washday came, usually on Saturday, they put on the 'old' pair used for work and chores while the new ones were washed.

And she must still vie for a machine during the peak washday, Sunday, the only day she can squeeze laundry into her schedule.

Washday Blues Caminiti got his $150 laundry money like everyone else.

Remo waited silently until a woman appeared on the screen to tell about her exciting new washday discovery.

The dish is customary - ham was traditionally a Sunday meal and Monday was washday.

The Munsons, like most families in the early 20th century, worked together at many different chores, one of which was washday:

Monday, washday; Tuesday, ironing day?

Then on the earth there would be indeed, A glorious washing day!

I see that I have signed up for 19 washing days so far this year.

The massage was washing days of tension out of her system.

Monday, the traditional washing day, was a heavy day for all mothers then.

The clothes were boiled here on washing days and the pump drew water from the well outside, using a system of lead pipes.

Priskin's back to his mischievous ways, though he now knows to keep a low profile on washing day.

Ash, particularly green ash, smells like washing day.

The camaraderie must have helped to make washing day bearable, but, oh, the aching knees and chapped hands.

You go on washing days.

Then he nodded and said emphatically, 'Every washing day.'

"This is Goldberry's washing day," he said, "and her autumn-cleaning.

After a few hours in the steamy chambers, most of the girls looked as red and disheveled as fishwives on washing day.

Millions of children from over 70 countries across the continents also participated in the Global Hand Washing Day.

On the washing day.

Smurf made washing day hell.

The "washing day" is also used in other North Germanic languages, although the Pagan names generally are retained.

"You find us hall at sixes and sevens, it being washing day and heverything.

Saturday is named after the sabbath in German, and is called "washing day" in Scandinavia.

"This is Goldberry's washing day," Tom tells the hobbits.

I remember my nan having 'washing day'...and it really did take her all day.

It was their washing day, you see, she'd done all the scrubbing and rinsing, and had it all ready to go out by mid-morning.

'Tomorrow, on washing day.

On washing day I fill a bucket half full of very hot water and add my cup of soap powder before going back to the house for breakfast.

"To celebrate Samdeviatov's gift of soap we have had two washing days and Sashenka has been running wild.

It's washing day.'