betowelled

English

Alternative forms

• betoweled

Etymology

From be- +‎ towel +‎ -ed.

Adjective

betowelled (not comparable)

1. Wearing a towel.

   Synonym: towelled

   • 1858, Hugh Miller, “Rambles of a Geologist; or Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland”, in The Cruise of the Betsey; […]. With Rambles of a Geologist; […]., Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co.; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., chapter X, page 399:

     The painter had set himself, with, I doubt not, fair moral intent, to exhibit a skeleton wrapped up in a winding-sheet; but, like the unlucky artist immortalized by Gifford, who proposed painting a lion, but produced merely a dog, his skill had failed in seconding his intentions, and, instead of achieving a Death in a shroud, he had achieved but a monkey grinning in a towel. His contemporaries, however, unlike those of Gifford’s artist, do not seem to have found out the mistake, and so the betowelled monkey has come to hold a conspicuous place among the solemnities of the Cathedral.

   • 1991, Laurence Phillips, “Sex, Mags and Videotape”, in Paris Scene: Gay Eurocity Guide, GMP Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 177:

     Both saunas offer discount to the under 26’s, and provide clean towels and robes. A patient and steady parade of betowelled torsos pad barefoot along the carpeted passageways, passing by the entrances to rooms occupied by those customers who have positioned themselves on the bunks to best advantage in the hope of attracting a suitable gentleman caller.

   • 1992, Anthony Bailey, “The Way to Bangor Pier”, in A Walk Through Wales, Michael di Capua Books, →ISBN, page 281:

     I was largely submerged in the bath, happily steaming off the remains of the head-cold, when there was a knock on the bedroom door. Betowelled, I opened it.