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toweled

toweled adjective: wearing a towel. Also the simple past and past participle of towel.

Adjective

toweled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a towel.
    • Although the Inferno’s toweled men do not appear in bath houses per se, they are surrounded by large numbers of partially clad, often athletic male bodies, just as they would have been in the Everard.1997, Laura Auricchio, “Lifting the Veil: Robert Rauschenberg’s Thirty-Four Drawings for Dante’s Inferno and the Commercial Homoerotic Imagery of 1950s America”, in Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, Ellen...
    • The cross section of toweled women in the sauna included well-to-do housewives who were complaining about cleaning companies that were doing a “lousy job” for them and wishing they could find somebody “who did a really good job.”1999, Gregory K. Ericksen, “Dorothy J. White—Miracle Services, Inc.: “If You Do a Good Job, Someone Will Notice””, in Women Entrepreneurs Only: 12 Women Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of Their...
    Synonyms:
    betoweled

Also used as

toweled is also the simple past and past participle of towel.

Synonyms of toweled

Forms of toweled

alternative formtowelled

Origin of toweled

From towel + -ed.

Words formed from toweled

Phrases with toweled

Questions about toweled

What does toweled mean?
Toweled means wearing a towel.
What part of speech is toweled?
Toweled is an adjective.

Words near toweled in the dictionary

  1. towel snap
  2. towel snaps
  3. towel up
  4. towel-horse
  5. towel-horses
  6. toweled
  7. toweled down
  8. toweled off
  9. toweled up
  10. towelette
  11. towelettes

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