"laundry mark" meaning in English

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      "form": "laundry marks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888 December 5, “Black Bart, the Highwayman”, in Montreal Herald, retrieved 2010-01-04, page 6",
          "text": "One of his shirt cuffs . . . bore a laundry mark, and the detectives finally located the laundry in this city.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 9, Burle Pettit, “When you get right down to it, life is a numbers game”, in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, retrieved 2010-01-04",
          "text": "Some of the numbers I remember had become useless information until the computer age brought forth the frequent necessity of thinking up passwords. . . . [W]hen at least one letter is required, I type in my army laundry mark, which is my last initial and the final four digits of my serial number.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing."
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          "marking",
          "marking"
        ],
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          "coded",
          "coded"
        ],
        [
          "handwritten",
          "handwritten"
        ],
        [
          "indelible",
          "indelible"
        ],
        [
          "ink",
          "ink"
        ],
        [
          "inconspicuous",
          "inconspicuous"
        ],
        [
          "garment",
          "garment"
        ],
        [
          "organizing",
          "organize"
        ],
        [
          "merchant",
          "merchant"
        ],
        [
          "clothing",
          "clothing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "laundry list"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "laundry-mark"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "laundry mark"
}

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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "laundry list"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888 December 5, “Black Bart, the Highwayman”, in Montreal Herald, retrieved 2010-01-04, page 6",
          "text": "One of his shirt cuffs . . . bore a laundry mark, and the detectives finally located the laundry in this city.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 9, Burle Pettit, “When you get right down to it, life is a numbers game”, in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, retrieved 2010-01-04",
          "text": "Some of the numbers I remember had become useless information until the computer age brought forth the frequent necessity of thinking up passwords. . . . [W]hen at least one letter is required, I type in my army laundry mark, which is my last initial and the final four digits of my serial number.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "marking",
          "marking"
        ],
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          "coded",
          "coded"
        ],
        [
          "handwritten",
          "handwritten"
        ],
        [
          "indelible",
          "indelible"
        ],
        [
          "ink",
          "ink"
        ],
        [
          "inconspicuous",
          "inconspicuous"
        ],
        [
          "garment",
          "garment"
        ],
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          "organizing",
          "organize"
        ],
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          "merchant",
          "merchant"
        ],
        [
          "clothing",
          "clothing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "laundry-mark"
    }
  ],
  "word": "laundry mark"
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