SHOP/STOREWASHa place where you can go to wash your clothes in machines that work when you put coins in them 〔装有投币洗衣机的〕自助洗衣店
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launderette• Lunch hour meant a hurriedvisit to a launderette or one of the new supermarkets.• For example, the washing machines in your local launderette are actually completely automaticvending machines.• The cost of launderettes is prohibitive on a subsistenceincome - so the washing gets done in the sink.• The light from the launderette had shone upon him like an arclamp.• During the period we were watching, we counted between 2,200 and 2,300 going into the launderette.