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Chinese laundry
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a small neighborhood laundry run by Chinese.
See: chink
Quotations
1884
A sample of the water used by its inhabitants was taken at hazard from a passing water cart and analyzed by a competent chemist with the following result: Solution of dead cat, ·13 . . . Attar of Chinese laundry, ·04. . . .
1889
What Rat Portage Has. One Bank, Six Hotels; Two Saloons . . . A Chinese laundry.
1953
It plunged into a Chinese laundry taking a door casing along.