paddings
Example Sentences
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The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.
From Time Magazine Archive
The book, when pulled to pieces, without end papers and sewing, should be about one-sixth thinner than with the paddings of the cover, thin books, of course, a little more.
From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul
Fancy stitches and cunning invention which provided for thrice the usual number of cartridges told one tale; flannel paddings which sought to make of the military appointment a winter garment told another.
From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Young, Filson
They swallowed their liqueurs, and the ashes of their cigars fell on the paddings of the furniture.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave
Then there was the sound of crashing and of paddings, and abruptly the noise was diminishing as if its source were moving farther away.
From The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Leinster, Murray
