toweled

English

Alternative forms

• towelled

Etymology

From towel +‎ -ed.

Adjective

toweled (not comparable)

1. Wearing a towel.

   Synonym: betoweled

   • 1997, Laura Auricchio, “Lifting the Veil: Robert Rauschenberg’s Thirty-Four Drawings for Dante’s Inferno and the Commercial Homoerotic Imagery of 1950s America”, in Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, Ellen E. Berry, editors, The Gay ’90s: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies (Genders; 26), New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, part two (Interdisciplinary Readings), page 131:

     Although the Inferno’s toweled men do not appear in bath houses per se, they are surrounded by large numbers of partially clad, often athletic male bodies, just as they would have been in the Everard.

   • 1999, Gregory K. Ericksen, “Dorothy J. White—Miracle Services, Inc.: “If You Do a Good Job, Someone Will Notice””, in Women Entrepreneurs Only: 12 Women Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of Their Success, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 136:

     The cross section of toweled women in the sauna included well-to-do housewives who were complaining about cleaning companies that were doing a “lousy job” for them and wishing they could find somebody “who did a really good job.”

   • 2002, Shirley Harrison, The Proposition, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 164:

     She looked up at the back of a strange toweled man, who stood at the sink.

Verb

toweled

1. simple past and past participle of towel