bath towel

[ bath, bahth ]

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

Origin of bath towel

1
First recorded in 1860–65

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How to use bath towel in a sentence

  • 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.

    In a German Pension | Katherine Mansfield
  • She spread a bath towel over a chair, moved another chair near, put out various articles of clothing, and left the room again.

    The Title Market | Emily Post
  • 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.

    The Danger Mark | Robert W. Chambers
  • One cannot effectively scold a moist nineteen-year old boy clad only in a bath-towel and a cloud of steam.