How To Use Rough-dry In A Sentence
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She did not like the plan at all; not that the thought of Lantier living under their roof disturbed her, but she had no idea where she could put the linen as it came in to be washed and again when it was rough-dry.
L'Assommoir
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Clothes looked rough-dry, as if they had been pulled out of a bag.
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I
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A sideboard spread in pressed glass; a chest of drawers piled high with rough-dry family wash; a coal-range, and the smell and sound of simmering.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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_impossible_ to bring any degree of order out of the chaotic mass of wet, half-dry, rough-dry, in some cases mildewed clothing lying everywhere about.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War
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She insisted on having every piece that moment -- clean or dirty, ironed or rough-dry.
L'Assommoir
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No one knew to whom they belonged, no one seemed to care, and it appeared to me impossible to bring any degree of order out of the chaotic mass of wet, half-dry, rough-dry, in some cases mildewed clothing lying everywhere about.
Memories
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They are put on rough-dry in the morning, and so worn until they are considered dirty enough for another purification.
Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves
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So she had determined to use her bed-linen and underclothing rough-dry.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
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It is advisable, too, to put not-to-be-used damask away rough-dry, otherwise it may crack, in the folds.
The Complete Home
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Come, Barton, smooth off your rough-dry visage, and suck.
The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.
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rough-dry the laundry
