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laundry

Process of washing textiles

Entitytechnique economic activity activityQ852100

Also known as laundering

Instance of: technique
, economic activity
, activity
Subclass of: washing
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Laundry is the washing of clothing and other textiles, and, more broadly, their drying and ironing as well. Laundry has been part of history since humans began to wear clothes, so the methods by which different cultures have dealt with this universal human need are of interest to several branches of scholarship.

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Uses: laundry detergent
washing machine
washboard
Q108008615
water softener
Practiced by: washerwoman
Different from: Laundering criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: laundering
Prádlo criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: prádlo
Wäsche criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Wäsche

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