wash-rooms

Updated: June 5, 2025

It was a dusky back room, plastered and painted yellow; its one window looking into the very narrowest of back-yards or courts, and out on a confused multitude of back buildings, appertaining to other houses, most of them old, with rude chimneys of wash-rooms and kitchens, the bricks of which seemed half loose.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete