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diaper

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1. diaper - Noun

2. diaper - Verb

Meaning

Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.

An infant's breechcloth.

To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.

To put a diaper on (a child).

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Marshall McLuhan

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change. James Carville

As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda. Martin Amis

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. Barbara Ehrenreich

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper. Damon Runyon

Myra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero. Sheri S. Tepper

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