paddings
Example Sentences
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The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Observe the “antediluvian” shape of the bat—no paddings on the legs.
From Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
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 Filson Young
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 Gustave Flaubert
I have got rid of the trammels pretty well,—haven't I?—have unshackled myself, and thrown off the paddings, and the wrappings, and the swaddling clothes.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
