a small neighborhood laundry run by Chinese.
- 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.