A public self-service facility where people can wash and dry their clothes in coin-operated machines.
Portmanteau combining 'laundry' (from Old French 'lavanderie') and '-omat' (from 'automatic'), a word-combining form that became popular in the 1950s.
Laundromats were invented right after WWII when soldiers came home and suburbs exploded—they made clean clothes accessible to apartment dwellers without home machines, and they became iconic American democratic spaces where strangers folded clothes side by side!
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