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betowelled

betowelled adjective: wearing a towel.

Adjective

betowelled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a towel.
    • The painter had set himself, with, I doubt not, fair moral intent, to exhibit a skeleton wrapped up in a winding-sheet; but, like the unlucky artist immortalized by Gifford, who proposed painting a lion, but produced merely a dog, his skill had failed in seconding his intentions, and, instead of...1858, Hugh Miller, “Rambles of a Geologist; or Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland”, in The Cruise of the Betsey; […]. With Rambles of a Geologist; […]., Edinburgh: Thomas...
    • Both saunas offer discount to the under 26’s, and provide clean towels and robes. A patient and steady parade of betowelled torsos pad barefoot along the carpeted passageways, passing by the entrances to rooms occupied by those customers who have positioned themselves on the bunks to best advantage...1991, Laurence Phillips, “Sex, Mags and Videotape”, in Paris Scene: Gay Eurocity Guide, GMP Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 177
    Synonyms:
    towelled

Synonyms of betowelled

Forms of betowelled

alternative formbetoweled

Origin of betowelled

From be- + towel + -ed.

Questions about betowelled

What does betowelled mean?
Betowelled means wearing a towel.
What part of speech is betowelled?
Betowelled is an adjective.

Words near betowelled in the dictionary

  1. betouched
  2. betouches
  3. betouching
  4. betow
  5. betoweled
  6. betowelled
  7. betows
  8. betoxycaine
  9. betpakdalite
  10. betrack
  11. betrail

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