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towelette

/taʊˈlɛt/

towelette noun: a small towel, hand or face wipe, either dry or more commonly impregnated with water or a cleansing fluid.

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Noun

towelette (plural towelettes)

  1. A small towel, hand or face wipe, either dry or more commonly impregnated with water or a cleansing fluid.
    • The folded moist towelette was smaller than my palm, but when unfolded at least cleaned my hands.

towelette meaning in Tamil

towelette in Tamil

கைத்துடைக்கும் சிறுதுண்டு, சிறுதுண்த்துண்டு

Forms of towelette

pluraltowelettes

Origin of towelette

From towel + -ette.

Phrases with towelette

Words that rhyme with towelette

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Questions about towelette

What does towelette mean?
Towelette means a small towel, hand or face wipe, either dry or more commonly impregnated with water or a cleansing fluid.
What is towelette in Tamil?
Towelette in Tamil is கைத்துடைக்கும் சிறுதுண்டு, சிறுதுண்த்துண்டு. See Towelette meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is towelette?
Towelette is a noun.
How do you pronounce towelette?
Towelette is pronounced /taʊˈlɛt/.
What is the plural of towelette?
The plural of towelette is towelettes.

Words near towelette in the dictionary

  1. towel-horses
  2. toweled
  3. toweled down
  4. toweled off
  5. toweled up
  6. towelette
  7. towelettes
  8. towelhead
  9. towelheaded
  10. towelheads
  11. toweling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: towelette (page history and authors); towelette (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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