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One wall is covered floor-to-ceiling with shelves subdivided into squares and neatly stacked with bath-towels in a few basic colours.

From Economist • Jul. 9, 2015

Her hair, still damp, was hanging about her shoulders, and she carried a bundle of bath-towels under her arm "Mr. Hascombe!" she demanded breathlessly, "you'll take me out in the surf-boat, won't you?"

From The Honorable Percival by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan

Amelia made no answer, but presently the big bath-towels met us under the arms of a small boy.

From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

Beata commandeered the boarders' bath-towels and appeared as an Arab, in robe and turban.

From Monitress Merle by Brazil, Angela

And as his ideas of edible food embraced everything that was chewable,—from bath-towels to axle-grease—he was seldom fasting and was frequently ill.

From Bruce by Terhune, Albert Payson