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Meanings of wash-and-wear in English

Treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing.

Related terms

Wash-and-wear fabric.

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Examples for "drip-dry"
Examples for "drip-dry"
1
What if you prefer to drip-dry?
Wired
2
The washed dishes from supper were still heaped up in the drainer, where Wendy had left them to drip-dry.
The Shining
3
And far more cloth has to to be cut & wasted... Hatha way's drip-dry print collection includes 30 different patterns.
The new yorker
4
After rinsing out the drip-dry shirt, he selected a wooden hanger for it and hooked it on the curtain rod.
Aground
5
Storage If wet, let your harness drip-dry before storing, and store away from temperature extremes, nibbling pests (mice!
Climbing Magazine
Usage of wash-and-wear in English
1
I want a whole new line of wash-and-wear swatches from the mills.
A Confederacy of Dunces
2
The jeans and pullover were bad enough, but the wash-and-wear hair and zero makeup had me cringing.
Exit strategy
3
Normally, I'd fall somewhere in the middle: the nature-girl look, with wash-and-wear hair, fading summer tan and tinted lip gloss.
Exit strategy
4
He said the synthetics and the wash-and-wear fabrics have hurt the business since he first got into the field 9 years ago.
The new yorker
5
Only the roughest wash-and-wear old clothes dealer would pick over these rags far enough to find the embroidered namebands sewn inside the neck.
Shadows in Bronze
6
"This is definitely wash-and-wear."
Exit strategy