- plural of padding.
paddings
Example Sentences
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The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fancy stitches and cunning invention which provided for thrice the usual number of cartridges told one tale; flannel paddings which sought to make of the military appointment a winter garment told another.
From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young
The book, when pulled to pieces, without end papers and sewing, should be about one-sixth thinner than with the paddings of the cover, thin books, of course, a little more.
From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam
Observe the “antediluvian” shape of the bat—no paddings on the legs.
From Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
I have got rid of the trammels pretty well,—haven't I?—have unshackled myself, and thrown off the paddings, and the wrappings, and the swaddling clothes.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
