Public place set aside for the washing of clothes.
1 There's live music and locals hang out around the stone lavoir -the old public laundry -eating ice-cream.
2 When they are washing at the public " lavoir " in the village one hears their shrill voices from a great distance.
3 He purchased the very lavoir that Emile Zola had specified in L'Assommoir and had it dismantled, brick by brick, and reassembled in the studio.
4 There is one curious old colombier which has been there for centuries; near the bridge there is a lavoir , where there are always women washing.
5 22, which has a side-door above which I read, "Petit Lavoir . "
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