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Diaper - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Diaper : (noun)
1: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the
legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch
excrement [syn: nappy, napkin]
2: a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven
pattern of small repeated figures
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Diaper : \Di"a*per\, v. i.
To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. ``If you diaper on
folds.'' --Peacham.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Diaper : \Di"a*per\, n. [OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of
figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from
L. jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper.]
1. Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven
in diaper pattern. See 2.
2. (Fine Arts) Surface decoration of any sort which consists
of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures
or units of design evenly spaced.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Diaper : \Di"a*per\, v. t.
1. To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern
called diaper, as cloth in weaving. ``Diapered light.''
--H. Van Laun.
Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers.
--Tennyson.
2. To put a diaper on (a child).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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