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washable diaper en · NOUN

Etymology

Due to cloth diapers being reusable after washing.

Meanings

1. Synonym of cloth diaper.
   • If you ask any woman over the age of sixty how she coped with menstruation when she was young, she is bound to refer with some resentment to the washable diaper. 1975, Hilary C. Maddux, Menstruation, Tobey Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 81:
   • In tropical conditions, a newborn infant would need a cotton vest and a loosely fitting gown that ties at the back with a disposable or washable diaper. If the temperatures are cold, they would need additional layers of woolen caps, socks and blankets to keep them warm when not in skin-to-skin contact. 2015, Piyush Gupta, PSN Menon, Siddarth Ramji, Rakesh Lodha, PG Textbook of Pediatrics: General Pediatrics and Neonatology, volume 1, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 379:
   • For those who insist on the old-fashioned washable diaper, laundry services have developed schedules in New York on which diapers of 5,000 babies are picked up three times each week. 1937, The Literary Digest, volume 123, Funk & Wagnalls, page 20:

Forms

Synonyms

cloth diaper