rough-dry
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
adjective
verb
Etymology
Origin of rough-dry
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Judy gathered up the stiff, rough-dry garments that had been hanging on the heater all night, while Molly found tossed in a corner the mate to the fatal slipper.
From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Speed, Nell
A sideboard spread in pressed glass; a chest of drawers piled high with rough-dry family wash; a coal-range, and the smell and sound of simmering.
From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie
She insisted on having every piece that moment—clean or dirty, ironed or rough-dry.
From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile
Pushing her aside, he seized the iron and ran it in a few hasty strokes over the rough-dry garment which she had spread on the board.
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
It is advisable, too, to put not-to-be-used damask away rough-dry, otherwise it may crack, in the folds.
From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)
The same bundle of clothes was soaked in Roumania, rough-dried in Bulgaria, and ironed in Servia.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 by Various
Kirkwood's clothing, now rough-dried and warped wretchedly out of shape, had been thrown carelessly on a transom near the door.
From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph
The two or three little garments of coarse calico it contained had been washed and rough-dried.
From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
"The process of being washed in the night air, and rough-dried in a closet is as dangerous as it is peculiar."
From The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, by Matz, Bertram Waldrom
I knew that absorbing work erases restlessness in mind and heart as effectively as a hot iron smooths out a rough-dried cloth.
From The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Little, Frances, [pseud.]
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