Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrostatic press in which woolen cloths are subjected to pressure.
- noun A press for baling cloth.
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Two priests were immediately sent to take charge of us, and they made us step without ceremony over the very backs of the people, who were on the ground almost quite flat on their faces, and by a private door landed us behind on the great altar, where they let us see the Service below by drawing up the crimson velvet curtain, and I own (God forgive me) that viewing it as I then did, it appeared little more solemn than my friend Senora Maria's cloth-press.
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