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terrycloth
noun
An absorbent cotton fabric typically used for towels and bathrobes; toweling.
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Wear a silk dressing gown over a terrycloth pantsuit if that's what'll get you through the night.
In the morning we sat in my living room wearing matching pink terrycloth bathrobes, afraid to take showers because we might miss the call".On the policy front, Mrs Albright gives a routine account of her drive to face down Slobodan Milosevic over Kosovo, and the decision to go to war.
"What I do recall, vividly and clearly, is waking up the next morning nude in the bed of his friend's apartment and seeing Cosby wearing a white terrycloth bathrobe and acting as if there was nothing unusual.
He was, at last, alone in the recording room, and nearly alone in the building — a small, short-trunked, stooped, pale, aging man in frayed denim pants, a denim jacket, a terrycloth long-sleeved shirt, cowboy boots, and a baseball cap.
Phoned Lauer's room to try to get him to do some pre-dawn play-by-play with me, but his wife hung up, so instead I made my own Lauer out of an ironing board, four pillows, and a terrycloth robe.
The other diners, mostly Russian men in V-neck sweaters and leather jackets, pay no heed to the mestnye in sandals and terrycloth robes.
The President came out, wearing a white terrycloth robe.
On the top floor, Jennifer Post was padding around in white terrycloth mules — installation slippers, she said, that she buys from the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
"I'm always going to be an omnipresent-but-not-there third in your marriage," declared Mr. Smith, clad in a ceremonial terrycloth bathrobe, as he was about to wed his first couple, Rhonda Sheffield and Chris Jacobs, on Oct. 10.
Pamela Rosenkranz imprints expressionist smears of terra-cotta-colored paint on large rectangles of white terrycloth; Antek Walczak draws mathematical grids over prints of a heroic fantasy poster; Sean Paul makes artist books involving the semiotics of spontaneity and digitalization.
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All the little details are right -- the car fins, terrycloth-lined shirts, Jackie Kennedy hairdos -- but the club is clearly made out to be a WASP enclave.
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