towel rail

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   a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels

   Synonymstowel bar

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Questions about towel rail

What does towel rail mean?

towel rail means "a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels".

What is another word for towel rail?

Close synonyms include towel bar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is towel rail a common word?

towel rail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.