- rough-dry
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I. transitive verb
Date: 1778
to dry (laundry) without smoothing or ironing
II. adjective
Date: 1854
being dry after laundering but not ironed or smoothed over <rough-dry clothes>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
rough-dry
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rough-dry — [ruf′drī′] vt. rough dried, rough drying to dry (washed laundry) without ironing: also roughdry adj. washed and dried but not ironed … English World dictionary
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