laundryfossil
/ˈlɔːndri ˈfɒsəl/nounVerified NewAlso in: Wäschefossil (Deutsch) · lavafósil (Español) · lingfossile (Français)
The garment discovered behind or beneath the washing machine, preserved since a previous era.
The laundryfossil dates the household: this t-shirt is from the old flat, this sock from a relationship earlier still. It is extracted during a move or a plumbing emergency, intact and smelling of the deep past. The fossil is not washed; it is catalogued, laughed at, and folded back into the sockorphanage as a founding member.
Etym. — laundry + fossil — the preserved specimen of laundry history, excavated intact.
Rel. — pocketconfetti
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