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Sanforized, a.|ˈsænfəraɪzd|
Also sanforized.
[f. the name of Sanford L. Cluett (1874–1968), U.S. inventor of the process + -ize + -ed1.]
a. A proprietary name for cotton and other fabrics which have been preshrunk by a special process. Also transf.
1930Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 30 Sept. 737/1 Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc., Troy, N.Y... Sanforized for piece goods of cotton, linen, woolen, silk, rayon, and combinations thereof. 1938Times 21 Feb. 11/1 A water-repellant finish is demonstrated at the stand of the Bleachers' Association, where Sanforized cotton and linen cloths are shown. 1939Trade Marks Jrnl. 24 May 706/2 Sanforized... Piece goods of textile material but not including cotton piece goods. Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc.,..Troy, New York..; manufacturers. 1944T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows 221 A frugal backwoods customer adequately sized up the complications of the ‘sanforized’ era in men's clothing when he sauntered into the Harbour Pitts store. 1952M. Steen Phoenix Rising i. 21 If this were the States..you'd be in a tuxedo and a sanforized shirt. 1963New Yorker 15 June 78 Made in the Orient of fine Sanforized cotton. 1970Which? Nov. 340/1 Some jeans carried a Sanforised label. 1975G. Howell In Vogue 104/2 In shops people were asking for uncrushable fabrics like zingale, and for cottons, linens and spun rayons which were Sanforized—preshrunk. 1978Church Times 25 Aug. 8 Soap-operas featuring sanforised nurses or grubby Lancastrians—everyday stories of boring folk.
b. fig.
1968Observer (Colour Suppl.) 11 Feb. 24 (Advt.), The Sanforized Big Car. {pstlg}567. The Imp is the big car shrunk small before it reaches you. 1970S. J. Perelman Baby, it's Cold Inside 130 The next time I go shopping for naïve art, I'll make bloody well sure it's Sanforized.
Hence ˈSanforizing, this process.
1948Time 11 Oct. 91/3 The company was also lucky in its Vice President Sanford Cluett, the original families' only remaining executive. Cluett was an experiment-minded man. His tinkering had turned up Sanforizing. 1963A. J. Hall Textile Sci. v. 241 Recently the inventors of the Sanforizing machine have been able to use a 2-inch thick rubber belt in a modified machine and so enable fabrics to be shrunk up to 20% in length. |