Definitions
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- noun An absorbent
cotton fabric typically used fortowels andbathrobes ;toweling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Several projects could be used to re-use even very small pieces of stach quilting cotton, and other recycled materials, such as terrycloth toweling or felted wool, are specifically called for in the instructions.
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His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals.
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His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals.
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Turn onto a cornmeal-dusted non-terrycloth dishtowel, seam side down.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Resolved to Bake Bread Big Girls 2011
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Some of us embraced the routine a little too much and the robe/slipper fashion statement became a permanent fixture at team meals and could frequently be seen sashaying up and down the halls as only a one-size-fits-all terrycloth robe can.
On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake 2010
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Unwrap it from the plastic and wrap in a clean cotton cloth (not terrycloth) towel.
The Taming of the 'Fu Sarah 2009
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Until this year, she'd been as thin as I was, but she was filling out and her breasts swelled up from the loose neck of the terrycloth.
Sam In Paradise Alex Austin 2011
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I run a towel over it, smell the towel, feel the terrycloth bumps, see the fibers that make it up, each one serving a purpose I have imposed upon them.
Now or Something Very Similar Jason Lee Miller 2011
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Unwrap it from the plastic and wrap in a clean cotton cloth (not terrycloth) towel.
Archive 2009-06-01 Sarah 2009
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At the spa in the Grand Hotel, guests enjoy saunas, steam baths, hot and cold pools, massages and beauty treatments, padding softly down the hotel's carpeted hallways in white terrycloth slippers and bathrobes from their rooms to the spa facilities downstairs.
Where Health Springs Eternal Aaron Maines 2011
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