diaper, nappy, napkin
(noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement
diaper
(noun) a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures
Source: WordNet® 3.1
diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)
A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
(North America) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
• (absorbent garment): nappy (British); napkin (British); napkin (South African)
diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)
To put diapers on someone.
To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
• Piedra, aperid, paired, pardie, piedra, repaid
Source: Wiktionary
Di"a*per, n. Etym: [OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from L.jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper.]
1. Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
2. (Fine Arts)
Definition: Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
3. A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.
4. An infant's breechcloth.
Di"a*per, v. t.
1. To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." H. Van Laun. Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. Tennyson.
2. To put a diaper on (a child).
Di"a*per, v. i.
Definition: To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." Peacham.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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