Wiktionary
alt. A characteristic of a fabric, especially one used in clothing, often created by applying a chemical treatment and pressure, which causes lasting resistance to wrinkling and retention of pleats and creases. n. A characteristic of a fabric, especially one used in clothing, often created by applying a chemical treatment and pressure, which causes lasting resistance to wrinkling and retention of pleats and creases.
WordNet
n. a fabric that has been chemically processed to resist wrinkles and hold its shape [syn: permanent-press fabric, durable press, durable-press fabric]
Wikipedia
Permanent Press is an American independent book publisher. The press was founded by Judith and Martin Shepard in 1978 and is based in Sag Harbor, New York. It also published through the Second Chance imprint, which releases books previously out of print.
The press first brought he work of Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness to the United States. Its books and authors have won the American Book Award, Hammett Prize and Small Press Book Award, and have been finalists for the National Book Award, Edgar Award and Chautauqua Prize.
Among the publisher's best known books is The Hoax, Clifford Irving's account of his fraudulent interviews with Howard Hughes.
Published authors include Mitch Cullen, Sandra Scofield, Chriss Knopf, Jess Gregg, Marian Thurm, Berry Fleming, Richard Lortz, William Herrick, and Joseph Stanley Pennell.
Usage examples of "permanent press".
The green and white checked cotton, probably permanent press, still looked fresh: crisp, carefully laundered, with little clip-on curtain rings.
A man alone, at any rate, who actually believed permanent press meant what it said.
I cranked the dial around to permanent press, just to keep the cycle short, and I was on the verge of popping the door shut again when I spotted Elaine's passport poking up out of the back pocket of a pair of blue jeans.
So, since the Permanent Press hardcover editions of his earlier books aren't exactly spilling off the bookshelves at my local bookstore, I was happy to see a more readily available mass market reprint of Resume with Monsters come from Borealis, the fiction arm of White Wolf Publishing.