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"cloth diaper, disposable diaper, nighttime diaper, swim diaper"
"Near-synonym: diamond twill"
"engine diaper, meat diaper, period diaper, rubber diaper"
"Gandhi was the holiest man in the world and ONLY holy men know how to fight in this world. Gandhi only needs a little diaper and no shoes. He does not need very much food. He doesn't ask for any of the riches of the whole world."
"The troilled piece, that woven like a courſe gauze, and the lining in a diaper pattern, preſent ſamples which prove that the art of weaving was far advanced at that period."
"Near-synonym: fur"
"Let one attend him with a silver basin, […] / Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper."
"Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast."
"If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken."
"Lord Orrery was President to-day; but both our dukes were absent. Brother Wyndham recommended [William] Diaper to the Society. I believe we shall make a contribution among ourselves, which I don't like."
"I need to change the baby's diaper."
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.
Common synonyms include: nappy, napkin, absorbent undergarment, belt, clothe, design.
I need to change the baby's diaper.
Pronounced /ˈdaɪ(ə)pə/.
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”).
A variant of the surnames Dipper and Dyper. Unrelated to diaper.