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DIAPER
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (absorbent garment): nappy (British); napkin (British); napkin (South African)
Verb
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.
Anagrams
• 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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