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'No, of course not,' retorted the Old Soldier. 'Take your Dictionary, for example. What a useful work a Dictionary is! What a necessary work! The meanings of words! Without Doctor Johnson, or somebody of that sort, we might have been at this present moment calling an Italian-iron, a bedstead. But we can't expect a Dictionary - especially when it's making - to interest Annie, can we?' "
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition: \I*tal"ian\, a. [Cf. F. italien, It. italiano. Cf.
{Italic}.]
Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.
{Italian cloth} a light material of cotton and worsted; --
called also {farmer's satin}.
{Italian iron}, a heater for fluting frills.
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Well, if we should ever need to flute our frills, we know now what to ask for with which to flute them!
Edit: I don't think this following image from Google is necessarily this Italian iron so-defined as fluting frills because I don't see any part that would necessarily--and more easily--flute a frill
http://www.chiavassa.net/img/ferrodastirolisa4.jpg
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