rough-dry
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
adjective
verb
Etymology
Origin of rough-dry
First recorded in 1830–40
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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 Fannie Hurst
She insisted on having every piece that moment—clean or dirty, ironed or rough-dry.
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
So she had determined to use her bed-linen and underclothing rough-dry.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland
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 Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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 Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
Barbara was thinking of two things,—how long he had been there, and what in the world she had said besides what she remembered; and—how she should get off her rough-dried apron.
From We Girls: a Home Story by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently rough-dried and starched.
From The Four Million by O. Henry
What is this limp, discolored rag which returns to me iron-moulded, blued until it is nearly black, rough-dried, starched in patches, with the fringe of red earth only more firmly fixed than before?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
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 Frances Little
The process of being washed in the night air, and rough-dried in a closet, is as dangerous as it is peculiar.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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