Towel
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A short encyclopedia entry defining the towel as a cloth for drying the hands, face or body. It names the main towelling fabrics, huckaback and Turkish towelling, and notes finer linen and damask towellings. It also covers the ecclesiastical use of the term for altar cloths, and traces the word's etymology from Old French and Low Latin back to Teutonic roots meaning 'to wash'.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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