padding
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Where walls are structural, they must be "covered with suitable protection", such as padding.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Stranger Beauty” seems less a light in the cosmos than a model for padding out the page count.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Yesterday, over 18 painstaking hours, teams of French and British conservators and British Museum staff unfurled the 70-metre long artwork from the folding stand where it had been concertinaed, surrounded by protective mattress-type padding.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
There was Molly Hollis, a middle-aged, Midwestern former schoolteacher whose creation required body padding and a wig; a flamboyant redhead; a nearly invisible elderly woman; and, most uncannily, Reichl’s own mother.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The BFG pointed through a gap in the bushes, and there, not more than fifty yards away, she saw a man padding softly across the lawn.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Certain types are specially treated, dyed black, tan or other colour, or left in their natural colour, stiffened and used for paddings and linings for cheap clothing, boots, shoes, bags and other articles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
The deep border of fur round the velvet, the warm waddings and paddings, the close fit up to the throat, were excellencies which warranted Janey's tour of inspection.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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
