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

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

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)

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

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile

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

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 Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

A corner of the room was crowded to the ceiling with valuable furs in their rough-dried state.

From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell

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

Dat frizzledy chicken, he steps so spry, An' he totes 'is head so pompious high, Like as ef he tries, wharever he goes, To rise above dem rough-dried clo'es.

From Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles by Stuart, Ruth McEnery