On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:31:57 -0500, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 1/29/2018 9:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> I have never heard of that. We always called them 'towels'.
>>
>> Have we ever called them 'diapers'?
>>
>I've never heard sanitary towels called diapers.

There was the colloquial 'rag' -