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Definition of Toweling
1. Noun. Any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels.
Generic synonyms: Cloth, Fabric, Material, Textile
Specialized synonyms: Huck, Huckaback, Terry, Terry Cloth, Terrycloth
Definition of Toweling
1. 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.
Definition of Toweling
1. Noun. Any fabric suitable for towels, such as huckaback or terry cloth. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of towel) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toweling
1. material used for towels [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toweling
Literary usage of Toweling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Helen Kinne, Anna Maria Cooley (1916)
"What material is best for toweling ? As soon as all the samples arrived at Pleasant
... The toweling samples were examined first. What a difference in them! ..."
2. Elementary Home Economics: First Lessons in Sewing and Textiles, Foods and by Mary Lockwood Matthews (1921)
"A toweling made of part cotton and part linen is called union toweling. There are
several kinds of toweling used in making kitchen towels. ..."
3. Household Arts for Home and School by Anna Maria Cooley, Wilhelmina H. Spohr (1920)
"Crash is very serviceable for dish toweling. It comes in several qualities, and
much FIG. 57. — Towels for various purposes. Do you know the use of each ..."
4. A Cotton Fabrics Glossary by Frank P. Bennett, & Co (1914)
"Rarely any colors, excepting red or navy blue, are used in toweling. ... But for
bathing purposes, where a rough toweling is sometimes required, ..."
5. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1919)
"Miss Frenzy, with careful inefficiency, lifted down and arranged on a dusty
counter three bolts of toweling. With deliberation as unconscious as it was ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"This material is technically known as " linen terry," and popularly as "Turkish
toweling." The toweling is made up in the shape of a bag somewhat larger ..."
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