- plural of padding.
paddings
Example Sentences
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The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There was something intolerable in their noiseless, ceaseless paddings over the pavement.
From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
Her gowns were even pressed here and there among their paddings.
From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton
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
The paddings of civilisation may be useful, yet Gilbert held more valuable a realisation of the realities of things.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie