Towel

A towel was used for drying or covering a person's body.
In Mesopotamia, 2700 BC the towels provided for Ace to use were rough, feeling like they took off a layer of skin when being used. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys)
In her guise as the proprietor of a bathhouse in Killingworth in the 19th century the the Rani provided towels for the men visiting the bathhouse. (TV: The Mark of the Rani)
Jean and Phyllis took towels down to Maiden's Bay in 1943 when they went there to swim. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
Following his arrival in the 20th century and a shower at Ashbridge Cottage Hospital the Third Doctor used a towel to dry off. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
When she was 16 in the 1980s and swimming with her friend Dinah Miranda Dawkins used a towel to dry herself off, whilst attempting to protect her modesty. (PROSE: Father Time)
After falling into the TARDIS swimming pool the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor used a towel at Amelia Pond's house to dry his hair in 1996. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
In a hotel room in San Francisco in 2003 Sam Jones embraced the fluffy white towels. (PROSE: Unnatural History)
In 2005 Yvonne Hartman was left wearing nothing but a towel after the Manor Rest Hotel burnt down. (AUDIO: One Rule)
A hotel in London in the early 21st century provided freshly laundered towels to its guests. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead)
Jack Harkness asked Neil Redmond for a towel after he was soaked in the rain. (AUDIO: Uncanny Valley)
Whilst staying with Craig Owens in 2010 the Eleventh Doctor would walk around the flat in only a towel. (TV: The Lodger)
In trying to discern where the plague effecting the the moonbase in 2070 the Second Doctor proclaimed that he would need to examine everything including; clothes, boots, food, towels, soap. (TV: The Moonbase)
After the Eighth Doctor was offered by Julya her rooms to stay in in September 2211, he took the opportunity to have a shower, greeting her when she returned in a single white towel wrapped around his waist. (PROSE: The Janus Conjunction)
Whilst she was staying on Vega Station in the 26th century. Sam Jones utilised the gym there, and the towels provided to wipe up sweat from her excercising. (PROSE: Demontage)
After stealing the Gamalian Dragon from Nusek's archives in 2593 Bernice Summerfield wrapped it in a towel and put it in her rucksack. (PROSE: Dragons' Wrath)
A shop on Drago 14 in 2698, whose beaches were roamed by acid-spitting land squids, sold acid-proof towels. (PROSE: Honeymoon Horrors)
On Avalon in 2991 Ian Chesterton (along with the First Doctor, Susan and Barbara) was provided with a washbowl and a rough towel. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Iris Wildthyme once was very fussy about which towels she used. Panda bought two towels from Cosmomart for 4000 credits. (AUDIO: The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society)
In Zanytown there was a hotel that Fitz Kreiner and the Eighth Doctor stayed at which had a bathroom, with a wash basin, bath and a neat pile of white towels, although it just had a space where a toilet should have been. (PROSE: The Crooked World)
==The Doctor's TARDIS==
After finding the TARDIS in Egypt 1366 BC, and having been trapped there, Ace showered within the TARDIS, drying herself with a large flannel towel. (PROSE: Set Piece)
Bernice Summerfield's laboratory in the TARDIS contained towels. (PROSE: Blood Heat)
Following Roz Forrester's death on Callisto on 28 August 2982 Chris Cwej was in the TARDIS bathrooms, reminiscing and remembering, and when he used a towel in there, realised it was Roz' and that it still smelt of her. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
In 1894 in the Doctor's TARDIS, Sam Jones provided Emmeline and Nathaniel Seers with towels after she helped them escape Zygons. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers)
The Eleventh Doctor proclaimed to Rory Williams and Amy Pond that there were "beach towels aplenty" in a trunk in the TARDIS. (PROSE: Dead of Winter) 
==Other meanings==
To 'throw in the towel' meant to give up. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)
After the events on Peladon and the Seventh Doctor's manipulations, Bernice Summerfield said him that "I'm not throwing in any towels", but that she just wanted a break, intending to go to Phaester Osiris. (PROSE: Legacy) 
Talking to the Seventh Doctor, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (of the Silurian Earth alternate universe) said that every time he considered throwing in the towel, he thought of the children. (PROSE: Blood Heat)
==See also==
*Tea towel
*Paper towel
Category:Hygiene
Category:Objects
Category:Cleaning
Category:Fashion and clothing