towelling
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We called ourselves Les Penguins en Peignoirs because we wore white towelling bathrobes to wrap around us when we got out.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2021
But Spicer’s statement that the president “definitely” did not wear a bathrobe was called into question when old photographs of Trump rugged up in towelling and terry cloth were circulated on social media.
From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2017
He shuffled around their flat on Paris’s chic Boulevard Saint-Germain in his black towelling dressing gown, seeming unusually gloomy as he dunked his buttered toast into milky coffee.
From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2016
It is modern, covers 800 acres, employs 14,000 and produces a steady 90 tonnes of towelling a day.
From Economist • Jul. 9, 2015
“But I am not a fortune-teller,” he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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