Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 291
the Latin lavare, to wash, from which alsocomes the French /aver, to wash, and the Old Frenchlavanderie, a washing. The Old English word lavendry was taken fromthe French. Later on it was changed to lauendry, and still lateron the e was dropped and it became as we now have it, laundry. About the… … BY HENRY OKMSBY PHILLIPS, AGE 17. 1904.] ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. 279 slightly changed, by the English themselves, andgradually became a part of the language, as laundryhas done. This word in its earlier form was used by WilliamLangland in his allegorical and satirical poem theVision of Piers Plowman,…
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