Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pressed while heat is applied. See
hotpress , v. t.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hotpress . - adjective that has been
heated andpressed
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Examples
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Though printed, hotpressed, reviewed, celebrated, sold to the twentieth edition: what is all that?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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As I passed by the windows of bookshops, I anticipated the time when my work would be shining among the hotpressed wonders of the day; and my face, scratched on copper, or cut in wood, figuring in
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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As I passed by the windows of bookshops, I anticipated the time when my work would be shining among the hotpressed wonders of the day; and my face, scratched on copper, or cut in wood, figuring in fellowship with those of Scott and Byron and Moore.
Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821
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a half-crown guide book, and ought certainly not to be set forth with spaced large type in hotpressed octavos at a costly rate.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title Various
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