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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 110 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TOWEL , a See also:

CLOTH

cloth used for the purpose of drying the hands, See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face or See also:

BODY

body after bathing or washing. These cloths are made of different materials, known as " towellings," the two See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal kinds are " See also:

HUCKABACK

huckaback," a slightly roughened material for chamber towels for face and hands, and See also:

TURKISH

Turkish towelling, with a much rougher See also:

SURFACE

surface, for See also:

bath towels; finer towellirgs are made of See also:

LINEN

linen or See also:

DAMASK

damask. The See also:

TERM

term has a particular ecclesiastical usage as applied to a linen See also:

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar cloth or to a See also:

rich cloth of embroidered See also:

SILK

silk, See also:

VELVET

velvet, &c., covering the altar at all " such periods when See also:

Mass is not being celebrated." The See also:

MID

Mid. Eng. towaille comes through the O. Fr. towaille from the See also:

Low See also:

LAT

Lat. toacula, represented in other Romanic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages by Sp. toalla, Ital. tovaglia; this is to be referred to the See also:

Teutonic verb meaning " to See also:

WASH, THE

wash," O. H. G. twahan, M. H. G. dwahen, O. Eng. 'mean, and cf. Ger.

Zwehle, provincial Eng. dwile, a dish-cloth.

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