Dressing and Padding

Dressing

Dressing noun - A medicated covering used to heal an injury.

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Padding and dressing are semantically related in filling topic. In some cases you can use "Padding" instead a noun "Dressing".

Nearby Words: dress, dressed, dressy, dresser

Padding noun - Soft material that is used to fill the hollow parts of something.

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Dressing and padding are semantically related in filling topic. You can use "Dressing" instead a noun "Padding".

Nearby Word: padded

good	good dressing	good padding
similar	similar dressing	similar padding
complete	complete dressing	complete padding
light	light dressing	light padding
Other adjectives: blue, little, new.

The Venture Bros.: Dean discovers this of his Distaff Counterpart, but it's unclear from his reaction whether or not said character is just padding, or is cross-dressing.

Source: Fake Boobs
Exaggerated shoulder-padding on womens' suits was even called power-dressing.

Source: Shoulders of Doom

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