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 Nell Speed
She insisted on having every piece that moment—clean or dirty, ironed or rough-dry.
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
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
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
So she had determined to use her bed-linen and underclothing rough-dry.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland
"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 Bertram Waldrom Matz
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 Louis Joseph Vance
The effect was rather rough-dried, but we were not in a position to be choosy.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
The two or three little garments of coarse calico it contained had been washed and rough-dried.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
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