Laundry places

venue where one may hire the use of a washing machine

room used to wash laundry, often also equipped for drying, folding and repairing clothes

thumb|The restored lavoir at Bonnat, Creuse|Bonnat straddling a small stream A lavoir (, wash-house) is a public place set aside for the washing of clothes. Communal washing places were common in Europe until industrial washing was introduced, and this process in turn was replaced by domestic washing machines and by self-service laundries (British English: laundrette; American English: laundromat). The English word is borrowed from the French language, which also uses the expression , "public basin".

open air commercial laundry in Mumbai; a generic term for the same throughout India

300px|thumb|Bleekveld in een dorp (Bleachfield in a village), circa 1650 (Jan Brueghel the Younger) A bleachfield or bleaching green was an open area used for spreading cloth on the ground to be purified and whitened by the action of the sunlight. Bleaching fields were usually found in and around mill towns in Great Britain and were an integral part of textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution.

room within a house where equipment not used in day-to-day activities is kept

Iranian national heritage site