compressed

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For the starched and hotpressed ones of the "Cambrian," though they did not openly say so, held him as in a manner responsible for this inferior spilling all over their idyllic place.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

Though printed, hotpressed, reviewed, celebrated, sold to the twentieth edition: what is all that?

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

He looks at Nature, sees it, hears it, feels it, and believes that it exists before it is printed, hotpressed, and labelled on the back By the Author of 'Waverley.'

From Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne by Ker, William Paton

Now, the Observations made at the Royal Observatory are printed with every regard to typographical luxury, with large margins, on thick paper, hotpressed, and with no sort of regard to economy.

From Reflections on the Decline of Science in England by Babbage, Charles