"beach towel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: beach towels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} beach towel (plural beach towels)
  1. A towel for use at the beach, typically larger than a normal household towel so that a person can use it to lie on the sand. Related terms: bath towel Translations (towel used at the beach): 沙灘毛巾 (Chinese Mandarin), 沙滩毛巾 (shātān máojīn) (Chinese Mandarin), strandlaken [neuter] (Dutch), rantapyyhe (Finnish), serviette de plage [feminine] (French), пля́жное полоте́нце (pljážnoje poloténce) [neuter] (Russian), toalla de playa [feminine] (Spanish), badlakan [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-beach_towel-en-noun-XOzj8f5o Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for beach towel meaning in English (1.8kB)

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