Washdays

Libraries were omnipresent, like tap water, washdays on Monday and park attendants who shouted at children. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On most washdays I use chlorine bleach on several articles whose labels proscribe it, without the slightest damage, and many of these have been receiving chlorine bleach now and then for years. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

But she was staying for weeks, after all, and given the weather, couldn't count on regular washdays. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

On washdays in the fall and winter months, Daddy used to ask for the “washday blue plate special,” navy beans and corn bread. ❋ Nancy Hutchens (1939)

The presence on washdays of a Bohemian laundress, of recent importation, added another to the variety of ways in which the English tongue was mutilated in Mr. Todd's kitchen. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Ordinary washdays as he remembered them, were rather disagreeable. ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)

Alexander will put his own spin on jambalaya, a Creole rice-based dish similar to paella, and red beans and rice, a recipe that evolved from Monday washdays in the South. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Besides, it struck me as odd that people would be doing their washing on Monday, and I offered some warmed over thoughts to explain why I thought Monday washdays sounded odd. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She'd be a-tellin 'me what t' do just th 'same, an' I'm tired enough, washdays, without havin 'somebody t' aggravate me about every piece that goes through th 'rench. " ❋ Dell H. Munger (N/A)