flatiron - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
flatiron (plural flatirons)
- A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove.
- ✤ The evil-smelling larrikin, beer-imbued —
The evil-loving brute-man homeward goes,
He kicks his dirty children with his boot,
Cursing their hunger, — and his poor worn wife
With cold flat-irons and handled broom awaits
His coming, to revile his drinking hard.1- A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.
- (especially referring to the shape of a building) a quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side.
- (geomorphology) A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata.
- Ellipsis of flat iron steak.
Adjective
flatiron (not comparable)
- Having a flatiron shape.
- ✤ a flatiron building
- ✤ The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point2
Etymology
From flat + iron.
Pronunciation
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