paddings

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The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Her gowns were even pressed here and there among their paddings.

From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton