A laundering; a washing.
In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.
That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.
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