rough-dry

American  

[ruhf-drahy] / ˈrʌfˈdraɪ /

Or roughdry

verb (used with object)

rough-dried, rough-drying

1. to dry (laundry) after washing, without smoothing, ironing, etc.

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adjective

1. (of laundered clothes, sheets, etc.) dried but not ironed.

rough-dry British  

adjective

1. (of clothes or linen) dried ready for pressing

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verb

1. (tr) to dry (clothes or linen) without smoothing or pressing

Etymology

Origin of rough-dry

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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rough-dry rough-dried

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

She insisted on having every piece that moment—clean or dirty, ironed or rough-dry.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile

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

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)

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

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 Little, Frances, [pseud.]

"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

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

Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently rough-dried and starched.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.