- present participle of iron.
ironing
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The deceptively simple work is part sculpture, part assemblage, part collage and features a vintage wooden ironing board set beside a white sheet hung on a line with six wooden clothespins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
First she mocked women with, “What am I, my husband’s servant? Picking up after him all the time, picking his undies off the floor, ironing his clothes? What am I, his servant?”
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Her board was also padded, which reduced damage to fabrics and helped prevent garment creases during ironing, and it was collapsible, enabling easy storage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
In this case, I can’t see how ironing out a few wrinkles and covering a rumpled duvet with a digital bedspread materially misrepresents your home.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
The ironing board had short legs, so she knelt as she worked inside the small bedroom.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
Well, Sky-High," said his mistress, "I am going to give you this cabin under the trees, where you may do your washings and all your ironings.
From Little Sky-High The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang by Hezekiah Butterworth
She owned a little soft, white silk frock, which still looked festive and partyfied, in spite of frequent washings and not too careful ironings.
From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch
Maria worked hard at her braiding—that was open to anybody's observation; but there were less obvious flutings and ironings down in the kitchen, and adjusting of ribbons and flowers in secret consultations up-stairs.
From What She Could by Susan Warner
Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
She could do washings and ironings if she could get them and do it here at home.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration
