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dryer 1 Noun any device that removes moisture by heating or by hot air dryer 2 Adjective same as drier1
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Translations dryer [ˈdraɪəʳ] n (for hair) → föhn m inv; asciugacapelli m inv; (for clothes) → asciugabiancheria m inv |
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| She hurried forward through the crowd as if intent upon reaching a distant home, bending forward in her handsome cloak, daintily lifting her skirts and picking for her well-shod feet the dryer spots upon the pavements. While heaping these compliments on Mr Flintwinch, he rolled him about with a hand on each of his shoulders, until the staggerings of that gentleman, who under the circumstances was dryer and more twisted than ever, were like those of a teetotum nearly spent. On all the house there is a cold, blank smell like the smell of a little church, though something dryer, suggesting that the dead and buried Dedlocks walk there in the long nights and leave the flavour of their graves behind them. |
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