| 单词 | dressing shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdressing shop dressing shop n. †(a) a place or establishment where woven cloth is finished or made ready for sale (obsolete); (b) a place or establishment where newly cast iron objects are smoothed down and have any surface impurities removed (now historical). ΚΠ 1772 Hartford Mercury 18 Sept. A Dressing Shop, a long Spinning and Weaving House. 1858 Hist. Guide to Leeds iii. 28 The dye-houses and dressing-shops are, some of them, of considerable importance. In these establishments the woollen goods are finished after being purchased in the rough state at the cloth halls. 1869 Commerc. Relations 124 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 87) XIV When the metal has cooled sufficiently, it is dugout of the sand and taken to the dressing shops, where roughnesses are removed. 1922 Blast Furnace & Steel Plant July 393/2 The cleaning or dressing shop, which should be at right angles to the molding shop. 2015 Daily Tel. 17 July 19/3 (caption) Work on a C-type pillar box in the dressing shop of an engineers' at Denny, Stirlingshire. < as lemmas |
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