Definitions

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  • noun terry cloth
  • verb Present participle of towel.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels

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Examples

  • Janey's had loads of babies, put them in towelling nappies and breast fed them all and so have I, plus we also have our laundry balls in common.

    54 entries from April 2007 2007

  • Janey's had loads of babies, put them in towelling nappies and breast fed them all and so have I, plus we also have our laundry balls in common.

    Sunday Confessions 2007

  • Janey's had loads of babies, put them in towelling nappies and breast fed them all and so have I, plus we also have our laundry balls in common.

    Sunday Confessions 2007

  • Mine was a kind of towelling bath-robe that I had bought in France when I lost my kit.

    The Blitzkrieg In Flanders 1940

  • He's got a mouth full of paper towelling, and a promise from you to shoot him in the face if he so much as makes a sound.

    A Job of Work Seamus Bellamy 2011

  • Catty - Good woman. oh and I love a good terry towelling hat; they look kind of cool.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo. 2010

  • The celeb loses loads of weight, most of their marbles and begins swanning into the BBC Television Centre wearing lilac Pineapple Dance Studio leg warmers and a towelling headband mumbling about "knowing my value on the Strictly tour" and "being pushed to new levels of joy" – which could mean "on the dancefloor" but we all secretly hope means "in the Novotel adjacent to the west London flyover with their mobile phone switched off."

    Strictly Come Dancing: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Even the terry towelling hats are making a comeback.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo. 2010

  • There's nothing suckier than going outside after swimming with that slightly damp feeling that no amount of towelling and drying seems to get rid of into -30 weather.

    Frozen Friday kittenpie 2009

  • Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, on track to meet Andy Murray in the quarters, looked right at the top of his game beating Frederico Gil – who was so bedazzed he wasn't quite sure it was over at the end of a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 tennis lesson, towelling himself down before belatedly going to the net to shake the winner's hand.

    Australian Open 2012 diary: Craving the word of her Serena majesty 2012

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