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Long before washing machines existed, laundry was a laborious task that —consumedconsumingconsumeconsumes an entire day, often the household's busiest of the week. Clothes were soaked, then beaten or rubbed against a washboard to —dislodgedislocatedisplacedisloyal dirt from the fibres, before being wrung out by hand. Only in the twentieth century did mechanical agitators begin to —replacereplacementreplacingreplaced this exhausting manual labour.