Diaper

n. [Fr. diaper, diaspre, jaspe, marbled, variegated, O. Fr. diaspre, Pr. diaspre, diaspe, Sp. diaspro, diaspero, It. diaspro, L. Lat. diasprus, diaspru, a kind of costly stuff, from Lat. jaspis, a green-colored precious stone. See JASPER.]

1Sense 1. Figured linen cloth; a cloth woven in flowers or figures, much used for towels, napkins, &c.

2Sense 2. A towel or napkin; an infant's breech-cloth.

Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.

3Sense 3. (Arch.) Paneling filled up with arabesque gilding and painting, or with carving or other wrought work in low relief.

v. t. 1. To variegate or diversify with figures, as cloth; to flower. “Diapered with unwrought flowers.” Tennyson.

2Sense 2. To put a diaper on, as a child.

To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. “If you diaper on folds.” Peacham.