Turkish towel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Turkish towel
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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He sat at Mar-a-Lago with a thick Turkish towel wrapped around his head, eyes squeezed shut, willing the thoughts to stop.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022
About 10, he gets up, bathes, shaves, douses himself with Bain de Champagne perfume, wraps himself in a six-foot-square Turkish towel and drips across the costly Aubusson tapestry rug on his bedroom floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He told me," she said, "he always had brushed his teeth with a Turkish towel."
From Time Magazine Archive
As the final notes drown in a roar of noisy affirmation, she mops her streaming face with a Turkish towel.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was surprised by a cumbrous package which, opened, revealed great things for a woman's dalliance with water—the soft Turkish towel, vast enough to envelop her, the perfumed soaps, and even the bath-mittens.
From A Man and a Woman by Waterloo, Stanley
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