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/ˈaɪərnɪŋ bɔrd/ Listen

Ironing board

noun

Narrow padded board on collapsible supports; used for ironing clothes.

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"Ironing board" Quotes from Famous Books

... I now ever permitted to see her in disarray, but always, as it seemed to me, fresh from my sister's clever hands, her hair laid smooth and shining, her simple gown starched crisp and sweetly smelling of the ironing board; and when I asked her why she was never but thus lovely, she answered, with a smile, that surely it pleased her son to find her always so: which, indeed, it did. I felt, hence, in some puzzled way, ...

— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan

... pair of duck trousers. And there were so many pairs of them. We sweated our way through long sizzling weeks at a task that was never done; and many a night, while the students snored in bed, my partner and I toiled on under the electric light at steam mangle or ironing board. ...

— John Barleycorn • Jack London

... Mr. Steadman is mistaken about women not wanting to sit in Parliament. He perhaps does not know what it feels like to stand over a wash-tub—or an ironing board—or cook over a hot stove. Women who have been doing these things long would be glad to ...

— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

... that of a woman with any figure to speak of," remarked Perry. "Unless she's as flat as an ironing board, somebody is sure to say she's vulgar. For my part I like shape," he ...

— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

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