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TOWEL

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 110 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TOWEL , a
cloth
  used for the purpose of drying the hands, face or
body
  after bathing or washing. These cloths are made of different materials, known as " towellings," the two
principal
  kinds are " huckaback," a slightly roughened material for chamber towels for face and hands, and Turkish towelling, with a much rougher surface, for bath towels; finer towellirgs are made of linen or damask. The
term
  has a particular ecclesiastical usage as applied to a linen altar
cloth
  or to a
rich
  cloth of embroidered
silk
 , velvet, &c., covering the altar at all " such periods when
Mass
  is not being celebrated."
The Mid. Eng. towaille comes through the O. Fr. towaille from the Low Lat. toacula, represented in other Romanic
languages
  by Sp. toalla, Ital. tovaglia; this is to be referred to the Teutonic verb meaning " to
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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