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wadding
Part of speech: NounSoft material used for gun wads, stuffing, etc.; cotton prepared in sheets for padding.
Usage examples "wadding":- They rise at daylight, fold up the wadded quilts or futons on and under which they have slept, and put them and the wooden pillows, much like stereoscopes in shape, with little rolls of paper or wadding on the top, into a press with a sliding door, sweep the mats carefully, dust all the woodwork and the verandahs, open the amado- wooden shutters which, by sliding in a groove along the edge of the verandah, box in the whole house at night, and retire into an ornamental projection in the day- and throw the paper windows back. - "Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan", Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy).
- Something sparkled among the wadding. - "A Duet", A. Conan Doyle.
- She was wrapped in a simple white wadding- like garment, only her head was visible; and when the Beg turned towards her, both his eyes and his mouth opened wide, and he stood rooted to the spot before her. - "The Slaves of the Padishah", Mór Jókai.