toweled
toweled adjective: wearing a towel. Also the simple past and past participle of towel.
Adjective
toweled (not comparable)
- 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 form | towelled |
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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
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