ironing

The deceptively simple work is part sculpture, part assemblage, part collage and features a vintage wooden ironing board set beside a white sheet hung on a line with six wooden clothespins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

But training them to safely perform household tasks like ironing or stacking the dishwasher is proving difficult and costly.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

First she mocked women with, “What am I, my husband’s servant? Picking up after him all the time, picking his undies off the floor, ironing his clothes? What am I, his servant?”

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

My earliest job was for $2 an hour, ironing huge dresses in a rental wedding gown shop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

“I’m still ironing out a few things,” my dad replied quietly.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

She could do washings and ironings if she could get them and do it here at home.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration

Maria worked hard at her braiding—that was open to anybody's observation; but there were less obvious flutings and ironings down in the kitchen, and adjusting of ribbons and flowers in secret consultations up-stairs.

From What She Could by Susan Warner

Well, Sky-High," said his mistress, "I am going to give you this cabin under the trees, where you may do your washings and all your ironings.

From Little Sky-High The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang by Hezekiah Butterworth

She owned a little soft, white silk frock, which still looked festive and partyfied, in spite of frequent washings and not too careful ironings.

From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope