A clothing iron, also called a flatiron or simply an iron, is a small appliance: a handheld piece of equipment with a flat, roughly triangular surface that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove creases.

This photo is of an electric steam iron. For years in Haiti my mother used a charcoal iron.

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