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Any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels
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towelling
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels [syn: toweling ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toweling \Tow"el*ing\, n. Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. [Written also towelling .]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. terry cloth n. terry cloth vb. (present participle of towel English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN robe ▪ She pulled on one of the towelling robes and wandered back into the bedroom, selecting clean clothes. ▪ You pull a towelling robe from the back of the door and throw it at her. ▪ With a disconsolate sigh she stood ...
Usage examples of towelling.
Middle-aged women wandered around in white towelling robes and mud packs.
No sound of splashing reached her so she rapidly leapt out of bed and grabbed a towelling robe to sprint into the shower.
He had put on black swimming trunks over which he wore an open towelling robe.
Hurricane Odin and Trox Island, I slid out of the pool in a while and stood, towelling, with my back to the house.
She used the sashes from two towelling bathrobes to tie his hands to the opposite corners of the bedhead and then she used her stockings to bind his ankles to the bottom corners of the four-poster.
She would be drying her hands on a piece of pink towelling and would watch them expressionlessly as they passed, rich folks in a Crown Vic headed for Captiva, and she'd have no idea that Carol Shelton once lay awake in a ninety-dollar-a-month apartment, listening to the records and the drug deals upstairs, feeling something alive inside her, something that made her think of a cigarette that had fallen down behind the drapes at a party, small and unseen but smoldering away next to the fabric.
As he now appeared in his doorway, towelling his hands, Wemmick got on his greatcoat and stood by to snuff out the candles.
Damia sobbed to Afra as he finished towelling her off and pulled her into his arms to wrap the towel around her.
I stripped off my clothes and towelled myself dry and the very action of towelling seemed to drain away what little strength was left to me.
Then came the sound of someone towelling themselves, and when, a minute or two later, there came the furious 'gurgling of water running out of the waste pipe, I eased myself off the door, passed through the two kitchen doors and outside garage door just in time to see the bathroom window open and a little cloud of steam come gushing out I caught her arm as she lowered herself to the ground, stifled the frightened gasp with my free hand, and led her back inside.