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Turkish towel

American  
Or turkish towel

noun

  1. a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.


Turkish towel British  

noun

  1. a rough loose-piled towel; terry towel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Turkish towel

First recorded in 1860–65

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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

Thus the hero's papa's whiskers are a haughtily braided Turkish towel, the sage councilors' hats, victrola records.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Noel had got brown-paper boots too, and a Turkish towel cloak.

From The Wouldbegoods by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

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