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bath towel

[ bath, bahth ]

noun

  1. a large towel used to dry the body after bathing or showering, usually made of heavy, absorbent material.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bath towel1

First recorded in 1860–65

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Example Sentences

If you’re looking for the kind of result you get from drying your hair and body with a cushy bath towel, this isn’t it.

He turned away from the window and switched his bath towel from the washstand rail, sick at heart.

She spread a bath towel over a chair, moved another chair near, put out various articles of clothing, and left the room again.

The bath towel that was nearly suffocating Harriet was partly removed from her head.

Her brother, surprised and gratified, handed her the bath-towel in the depths of which reposed the batrachian.

One cannot effectively scold a moist nineteen-year old boy clad only in a bath-towel and a cloud of steam.

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