ironing board
a flat, cloth-covered board or other surface, often foldable and having legs, on which clothing, linens, or similar articles are ironed.
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How to use ironing board in a sentence
She also mentioned that they had used their ironing board as a table.
Best Lines From the GOP Convention: Christie, McCain & More (Videos) | Caitlin Dickson, Laura Colarusso | August 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir 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.
By The Sea | Heman White ChaplinListening again, she heard the sound of a flatiron thumping an ironing board.
Mary Louise in the Country | L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)
My mother would wash my hair by having me lay on the ironing board with my head hanging over the sink.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonHe would shout as jovially and interestedly while selling a fifty-cent used ironing board as he would over a prize cow.
Ticktock and Jim | Keith RobertsonOn this side table sat two rusty flat-irons, and against it leaned an ironing board.
The Foolish Virgin | Thomas Dixon
British Dictionary definitions for ironing board
a board, usually on legs, with a suitable covering on which to iron clothes
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