"towel rail" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: towel rails [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} towel rail (plural towel rails)
  1. A rail, or system of rails (sometimes heated) in a bathroom, on which towels are hung to dry. Categories (topical): Bathing Translations (rail on which towels are hung to dry): tovalloler [masculine] (Catalan), pyyheteline (Finnish), ráille tuáillí [masculine] (Irish), tīrewa tauera (Maori), tārawa tauera (Maori), toallero [masculine] (Spanish), handdukshållare [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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