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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

étendoir

Pronunciation / Transliteration: e-tã-dwir

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Drying-rack/ˈdraɪ.ɪŋ.ræk/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #14200 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Elle a mis le linge mouillé sur l'étendoir."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A frame or stand with bars or shelves used for holding washed clothes or dishes while they dry by air.

    "She hung the delicate shirts on the drying-rack in the sunroom."
  2. 2

    A specialized structure used in various crafts, laboratories, or manufacturing processes to air-dry printed materials, artwork, or laboratory glassware.

    "The students placed their freshly printed etchings on the metal drying-rack."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the present participle of the verb 'dry' (from Old English 'drȳge') and the noun 'rack' (from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'rack', meaning a framework for holding things). The compound term emerged in domestic contexts during the industrial era to describe portable or fixed structures used for air-drying washed laundry or dishware.

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