Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An iron for pressing clothes, especially one that is heated externally, as on a hearth or stove.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An iron for smoothing cloth. It is made very hot and then passed quickly and firmly over the dampened surface of the fabric to be smoothed. Also
sad-iron , or simply iron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A simple
iron (for pressing laundry) which isheated on astove - noun especially referring to the shape of a building a
quadrilateral with twoparallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side. - adjective Having a flatiron shape
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an iron that was heated by placing it on a stove
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Examples
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i think youre thinking of a margaritta pizza those are usually more expensive but worth the cost IMO. for personal brick oven in flatiron i go to waldys on 6th between 27th and 28th, i dont know of any other brick ovens in the area but i have to admit i havent really looked
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I cant get on twitter and their wesbite says their in flatiron.
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So we had to find our way crosstown to Broadway and East 29th aka the flatiron district!
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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This notorious local restaurant/bar/filthy-but-fun hang-out fills the pointy end of the "flatiron" shaped building.
fun with politics alladinsane 2005
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It's a neat old thing, one of those corner or "flatiron" shaped buildings constructed sometime late last century to serve as a bank -- but it spent most of its commercial career as a furniture store.
October 14th, 2004 2004
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This reflects our plan to unearth the former corner store that used to be housed in the "flatiron" triangular building.
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Cara tugged the flatiron hard from the cabinet, knocking over several shampoo bottles in the process.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Oh, perfect for me, Cara thought as she extracted the flatiron from the back of the sink cabinet.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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“Scissors, a mirror, a flatiron, and the blow-dryer,” Zoe called over her shoulder.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Her mind was already buzzing: first a shower, then flatiron her hair, then clothes.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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