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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fine sieve made of closely woven silk, used in the purifying of ceramic clay.

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Examples

  • April 27, 2010 at 7:14 pm yoo kidz git owf mai laun!

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  • Tehyre lettin taht crazeee kitteh CCC drivure mow teh laun naow;

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  • High-res, bird's eye view of space shuttle on laun...

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  • The cola is selling so well that Mathlouthi's considering alternatives to other American products like laun-dry detergent, soup, fried chicken and cigarettes.

    Periscope 2007

  • Degas 'bathing women, maids, laun - dresses, and shopgirls lacked the academic types of statuesque beauty admired by academic taste, but they presented unconventional, unposed, naturalistic de - signs, formed by living bodies in the course of ordinary activities.

    IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968

  • Bes-sie Burns said she would play she was a laun-dress.

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  • He is a big, powerful chap, clean-shaven, and very swarthy -- something like Aldridge, who helped us in the bogus laun - dry affair.

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • He is a big, powerful chap, clean-shaven, and very swarthy -- something like Aldridge, who helped us in the bogus laun - dry affair.

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • A cellar, under the entire house, has a cemented bottom, and contains a laun dry.

    Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

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