laundry basket
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General and miscellaneous containers
Ball jar
bin
bindle
biscuit tin
caddy
geocache
gift box
gunnysack
hamper
handbasket
pallet
piggy bank
planter
punnet
receptacle
safe deposit box
workbasket
workbox
wormery
wrap

Examples from literature

At the end of the line is a clothes basket. 
Table linen, unless taken from the line while still moist, should be sprinkled very damp, folded evenly, rolled and wrapped in a white cloth, and placed in the clothes basket, which has been previously lined with an old sheet. 
They had tied the clothes basket to the rope running over the wheel. 
They used to hide in a big clothes basket very much like that one over there. 
Wesley took the clothes basket from the back porch and started in the direction of the cellar. 

Examples of clothes basket

clothes basket
Just now he was carefully packing the excelsior in a big clothesbasket.
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He carried a small clothesbasket in his hand with handles at either end and a great coil of heavy rope.
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An ordinary clothesbasket, padded and lined, is quite sufficient for the first month; or, a baby crib, which may be cheap or expensive as the individual taste dictates.
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There was a good table in the kitchen, a rusted stove, an old clothesbasket hanging on the wall beside a broken lantern, a dilapidated splint-bottomed chair.
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So he sent the soldier with the green whiskers for a big clothesbasket, which he fastened with many ropes to the bottom of the balloon.
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And little heaps in clothes baskets, that are babies!
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They are found in closets, cupboards, and clothes baskets.
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She slid his emptied dishes into the loaded sink, and took up the two empty clothes baskets.
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This addition of tubs, wringers, clothes baskets, and soapy water on the pavement to the already populous court makes it no very serviceable playground for children.
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