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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A nest or collection of iron pipes in ranks or coils, through which steam is passed to heat a room, etc. See cuts under radiator.
Examples
“But when, as probably developed at this point, Mr. Cuyler was advised that his remarks bore convincing traces of the proximity of an active steam-radiator and that the broker knew perfectly well that the”
“The rooms were the smallest they had ever seen, but they were clean, and the price was only fifty cents a day -- a dollar and a half a week for Thyrsis 'and two dollars for Corydon's, because there was a steam-radiator in it.”
“The steam-radiator had proved a farce, anyway -- there was never any steam, and they had had to use gas-heaters.”
“They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.”
“She cried a little, far back in her throat with the small hissing noise of a steam-radiator, and tried a poor futile scheme for easing her head in the crotch of her elbow.”
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
“I'm just about ready to settle down by the old steam-radiator.”
“Mr. Flint's office bore all the conventional signs of business -- commissions of authority from insurance companies, state licenses in oak frames, an oil-painting of Thomas Sawyer Flint, the founder of the firm, over a fireplace that maintained its useless dignity in spite of the steam-radiator near the window.”
“The panels will heat the water used by the the building's steam-radiator heating system.”
“Think of the bliss of being where you have only to turn a screw in your steam-radiator to escape from this beastly cold.”
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