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noun

Diaper n.

Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

(Fine Arts) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc. "Let one attend him with a silver basin,... Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper."

An infant's breechcloth.

verb

Diaper v. t.

To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." "Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers."

To put a diaper on (a child).

Diaper v. i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds."

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Etymology of 'Diaper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Diaper" Quotes from Famous Books

... herring-bone design. "Perry's Victory" and "Lady Washington's Delight" show probably the date of their invention, and were handsome designs, while the "Whig Rose from Georgia," which had been given to the weaver by an old lady a hundred years old, had proved a poor and ugly thing. "Kapa's Diaper" was a complicated design which took "five harnesses" to make. "Rattlesnake's Trail," "Wheels of Fancy," "Chariot Wheels and Church Windows," and "Bachelor's Fancy" were all ...

— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

... Bands. The most self-sufficient of pens would falter at a description of design so exquisite, which is arranged in three panels with a deity in each, a composition of extraordinary grace above and below them, and a bordering band of losenge or diaper, on which is set the royal double L and the significant dolphin who gave his name to kings' sons. The exquisite art of Audran and of the regence cannot be better seen than in this set of tapestries which was woven but once at the royal factory, although repeated many times elsewhere with the ...

— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

... to decorate a binding is to cover it with some small repeating pattern. A simple form of diaper as a beginning is shown at fig. 104. To make such a pattern cut a piece of good, thin paper to the size of the board of a book, and with a pencil rule a line about an eighth of an inch inside the margin all round. Then ...

— Bookbinding, and the Care of Books - A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians • Douglas Cockerell

... great number of diminutive mouldings, principally ogee and hollow. Foliage work of rare beauty and representations of grotesque animals form the greater part of the ornament. There are interesting remains of diaper work in the wall which forms the back. The plinth and seats are probably modern work. At the top are placed some pieces of battlement work, of which there is a great amount in different parts of the building. It seems a pity that the remains of the sedilia which ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury - with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire • H. J. L. J. Masse

... melancholy among the nuns. I knew her and I knew men who knew him. He was given a gorgeous uniform of gold lace by his promoters, which I think killed him, though when he sweated, he would strip to his handsomely marked skin and sit naked in the breeze. The queen never wore more than a diaper or a gown. ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

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