washable diaper

English

Etymology

Due to cloth diapers being reusable after washing.

Noun

washable diaper (plural washable diapers)

1. Synonym of cloth diaper.
   • 1937, The Literary Digest, volume 123, Funk & Wagnalls, page 20:

     For those who insist on the old-fashioned washable diaper, laundry services have developed schedules in New York on which diapers of 5,000 babies are picked up three times each week.

   • 1975, Hilary C. Maddux, Menstruation, Tobey Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 81:

     If you ask any woman over the age of sixty how she coped with menstruation when she was young, she is bound to refer with some resentment to the washable diaper.

   • 2015, Piyush Gupta, PSN Menon, Siddarth Ramji, Rakesh Lodha, PG Textbook of Pediatrics: General Pediatrics and Neonatology, volume 1, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 379:

     In tropical conditions, a newborn infant would need a cotton vest and a loosely fitting gown that ties at the back with a disposable or washable diaper. If the temperatures are cold, they would need additional layers of woolen caps, socks and blankets to keep them warm when not in skin-to-skin contact.