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