Definition of "tidies" [tidies]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tidy. (verb)

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• ""tidies" -- as if they lived in a long past age, or belonged to a lower race."
• "Grandma liked to talk as much as grandpa liked to keep silent; and always, to the running accompaniment of her tongue, she kept her hands busied, whether "puttering about" in her house or flower-garden, or crocheting "tidies," or knitting little mittens, or creating the multi-coloured paper-flowers which helped make her house so alluring."
• "The heavier pieces of old furniture had gay "tidies" or "throws" upon them to relieve the sombreness of the dark wood."