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
Her gowns were even pressed here and there among their paddings.
From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton
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
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
