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flatiron

/flat-ahy-ern/US // ˈflætˌaɪ ərn //UK // (ˈflætˌaɪən) //

烙铁,烙印,壁炉,烙烙铁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
    • : Geology. a triangular hogback that resembles a flatiron resting on its base.

Examples

  • Eataly Flatiron Since opening in mid-2010, Eataly has attracted plenty of attention.

  • (Imagine the Flatiron building collapsing one sunny, rush-hour evening).

  • The best are Chambers Street Wines, Astor Wines and a new one I just discovered that I love called Flatiron Wine Spirits.

  • Old women in their nightcaps run into the streets, with a washhand basin or a flatiron.

  • What does your mother do, when she wants to find out whether the flatiron is hot enough to iron?

  • That night Tom had been down on the other side of the river, and was coming up—coming to me—past the Flatiron wharf.

  • Listening again, she heard the sound of a flatiron thumping an ironing board.

  • She knocked, and the door was opened by a little middle-aged woman who held a hot flatiron in one hand.