hotpress

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A form of hot-press — To apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process, or as a method of printing.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbhotpress (third-person singular simple present hotpresses, present participle hotpressing, simple past and past participle hotpressed)

present singular third person hotpresses · participle present hotpressing · participle past hotpressed · past hotpressed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hot-press.
    1 more example

    She remembered, when a girl, seeing a short poem written by the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, for which her papa gave three guineas; she did not suppose there was a single copy sold in the city or the country, so that her grace had really the satisfaction of knowing that her beautiful hotpressed folio was opened alone by courtly hands.

    1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296
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