| 单词 | shirt-ironing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshirt-ironing C3. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which shirt expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in shirt-ironing, shirt-making, shirt-mending (adjectives and nouns); shirt ironer, shirt maker, shirt washer, etc. ΚΠ 1851 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 26 Aug. in Sel. Lett. to J. W. Carlyle (1892) 421 I am in the midst of shirt-mending. a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xvi. 33 Shirt making as my Mother taught the art, cutting with such accuracy, fitting to a nicety.., it was a lesson in itself. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 75 Hosiery Manufacture... Shirt Knitter. 1893 Laundry Managem. (ed. 2) 80 Some of the shirt ironers [sc. machines] have..a good-sized iron, heated by steam or gas. 1897 19th Cent. Aug. 203 Londonderry..[with] its shirt-making industry. 1902 Daily Chron. 24 July 9/4 Laundry.—A good shirt washer wanted. 1909 Daily Chron. 23 Jan. 8/3 Rotary Shirt Washer (Good secondhand, brass cylinder), wanted. 2005 C. Gatrell Hard Labour 127 Given that shirt-ironing may be seen as metaphorical of wifework.., it is significant that only one woman was prepared to iron her husband's shirts herself. < as lemmas |
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