| 单词 | ironing box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasironing box ironing box n. a box iron; (in later use also) an electric iron.Now chiefly in the English of Kenya, Uganda, and India. ΚΠ 1669 in Mayflower Descendant (1905) 7 44 Ironing box with heaters & pease hooke. 1760 J. Colebrooke in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 44 An ironing box, charged with an hot heater. 1868 London Society Feb. 129/1 They removed traces of handling with an ironing-box. 2003 Afr. News (Nexis) 2 Oct. How does the MP have his clothes pressed, this reporter inquired?.. Namukwaya said: ‘We gave up. You run here, you run there, looking for any one with an ironing box.’ < as lemmas |
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