hotpress
See also: hot press
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]hotpress (third-person singular simple present hotpresses, present participle hotpressing, simple past and past participle hotpressed)
- (transitive) To apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process, or as a method of printing.
- (transitive) To apply both heat and mechanical pressure in order to extract oil or juices.
- Coordinate term: coldpress
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296:
- She remembered, when a girl, seeing a short poem written by the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, for which her papa gave three guineas; she did not suppose there was a single copy sold in the city or the country, so that her grace had really the satisfaction of knowing that her beautiful hotpressed folio was opened alone by courtly hands.