diaper
Meanings
noun
- An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent or wets the bed, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.
- A textile fabric having a repeating pattern, especially of diamonds or flowers, formed by alternating directions of thread.
- Something that absorbs and collects (retains) liquid or waste material, much like a diaper (noun sense 1).
- A piece of clothing that resembles the shape of a diaper (noun sense 1) but lacks the absorbency.
- A repeating geometrical or (often stylised) floral pattern, usually of small diamonds evenly spaced, that decorates a flat surface, sometimes in bas-relief; diaperwork.
- A repeating geometrical or floral pattern, used to cover the surface of a shield and forming the ground for any charges.
- A towel, napkin or tablecloth made from the diaper fabric (noun sense 2).
verb
- To put diapers on someone.
- To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
From Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with floral or decorative geometrical patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).
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