ironing board
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- noun
- /ˈaɪərnɪŋ bɔrd/
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tabla de planchar
- She set up the ironing board in the laundry room to press her shirts before work.
- ironing board and iron
- folding ironing board
- set up the ironing board
I go for a drive, went to a girl's yard, stay there the night, come back to my uni accommodation, open the door and on my ironing board the same note is there.
- I go for a drive, went to a girl's yard, stay there the night, come back to my uni accommodation, open the door and on my ironing board the same note is there.
Examples
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It's sunny and the ironing board is always up.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Just a minute, little man," she said, and picked up my pants from the ironing board and handed them to me.
Fiction book (1993) -
So fresh and clean, as if just off the ironing board.
Fiction book (1994) -
And I use that on a regular ironing board and a sleeve arm.
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Next day, she came out on bail and came over and borrowed my ironing board.
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My husband bought a new ironing board cover, and it was reversible.
Blog text (14) -
We've got our ironing board on the end cupboard as well.
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But, again, sewing is mostly pressing, and a really good ironing board will last you decades.
Blog text (5) -
Aunt Amanda had the ironing board out and was ironing.
Fiction book (1993) -
There's an ironing board next to the washing machine in our porch, but no one ever irons on it.
Fiction book (2000)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — a board used for ironing clothes — is directly and compositionally derived from 'ironing' (the activity of smoothing clothes) plus 'board' (a flat or long surface). This noun-noun compound follows a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Ironing board comes from a simple picture: a flat board that holds clothes while you press them with a hot iron. That's why the name means 'a long, narrow, padded board with legs used for ironing clothes'.