laundering
(noun) washing clothes and bed linens
Source: WordNet® 3.1
laundering
present participle of launder
laundering (plural launderings)
The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
Source: Wiktionary
Laun"der*ing, n.
Definition: The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.
Laun"der, n. Etym: [Contracted fr. OE. lavender, F. lavandière, LL. lavandena, from L. lavare to wash. See Lave.]
1. A washerwoman. [Obs.]
2. (Mining)
Definition: A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.
Laun"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Laundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Laundering.]
1. To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.
2. To lave; to wet. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 June 2025
(noun) members of a family line; “his people have been farmers for generations”; “are your people still alive?”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
