flatiron
noun
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adj
Etymology: From flat + iron.
- Having a flatiron shape.
“a flatiron building”
“The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point”
name
Etymology: From flat + iron, see flatiron.
- A district of Manhattan, New York City, United States.
“On a recent Thursday, Vani Hari, perhaps Public Enemy No. 1 of big food companies, sat at ABC Kitchen in the Flatiron district wearing a purple sweater with a giant pink heart and pink heart-shaped crystal earrings.”
noun
Etymology: From flat + iron.
- A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove.
“The evil-smelling larrikin, beer-imbued — The evil-loving brute-man homeward goes, He kicks his dirty children with his boot, Cursing their hunger, — and his poor worn wife With cold flat-irons and handled broom awaits His coming, to revile his drinking hard.”
- A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.
- a quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side.
- A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata.
- Ellipsis of flat iron steak.