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drenty a EDD drent sb (1) ~ Ha W. Of badly washed linen, stained, streaked.
   P 212-65 ~ of the streaking of clothes when imperfectly or unevenly dried after washing. 1972 MURRAY 206 Many women felt that clothes dried in the house dried 'drenty' (not a bright clean white).

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