Tag: safareig
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Gossiping Street, or Washing Street.
The word Safareig means a traditional public washhouse or washing basin used in Catalan-speaking regions of Spain for washing clothes in a communal setting. The origin of the word, is more interesting than that.. The word comes from Persian; čāhrēg, built from čāh (pit or well) plus rēg (sand). It was then borrowed into Arabic,…