delicate
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An architect friend who is also a passionate air dryer swears by IKEA's basic rack and Leifheit's retractable rack for delicates or small hanging.
From Salon • Mar. 11, 2022
She does a load of whites, a load of delicates, then a load of “everything else.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021
I do my delicates first on the lowest setting, then work my way up to the items that need the hottest setting.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019
Wirecutter’s Harry Sawyers uses and likes the Whitmor for hanging baby socks and delicates that shouldn’t go in the dryer.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019
A question it were now, whether of us three, Being all the known delicates of a rich man, In pleasing him, claim the precedency can?
From Volpone; Or, the Fox by Jonson, Ben
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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