flatiron
noun
an iron for pressing clothes or fabric, especially an old-fashioned, nonelectric one that is typically made of cast iron and heated on a woodstove.
flat iron
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a variation of
flatiron.
Example Sentences
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A tiny house once named after a flat iron because of its shape is for sale in a Cornish harbour.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
“I would flat iron my hair,” said Berlie, a daytime anchor at Nexstar’s Chicago-based cable channel NewsNation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The dinner, where courses served included coffee-crusted black angus flat iron steak and a vegetable curry with squash and rice, attracted nearly 400 people, including government officials and academics.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2023
Sometimes she pops corn kernels one at a time using a hot-hair flat iron.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
His thumbnail twanged the flat iron keys of the instrument, and the sound resonated inside the calabash on his knees.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
