bath mat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bath mat
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Over several visits, the team asked about his needs and priorities and supplied a shower chair and a rubber bath mat.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2021
She’s also found that the mats work well as a drop cloth under a baby’s high chair and, in a pinch, as a compact bath mat.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019
Hobson, who has a “normal amount” of fox stuff, including a fox mug and a fox bath mat, had to wait for his most prized fox encounter.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2017
A young American woman soaks in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub, her muddy boots staining his bath mat, and an official portrait of the Fuehrer sits on the tub’s edge.
From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2015
Some limp and dangling things look like slices of our bath mat.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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