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ironing board

noun

  1. a flat, cloth-covered board or other surface, often foldable and having legs, on which clothing, linens, or similar articles are ironed.


ironing board

noun

  1. a board, usually on legs, with a suitable covering on which to iron clothes


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ironing board1

First recorded in 1835–45

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Example Sentences

She also mentioned that they had used their ironing board as a table.

Their first dining-room table was a fold-down ironing board in the kitchen.

I can still see her standing for endless hours at the ironing board steaming and reading simultaneously (and smoking).

His white cotton shirt, with its easy collar and wristbands, seemed always to have just come from the ironing-board.

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

My mother would wash my hair by having me lay on the ironing board with my head hanging over the sink.

He would shout as jovially and interestedly while selling a fifty-cent used ironing board as he would over a prize cow.

On this side table sat two rusty flat-irons, and against it leaned an ironing board.

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