barrier fabrics in medical applications protective clothing applications and for hygiene applications such as barrier leg cuffs of particular utility for hygiene applications are spunbond meltblown laminates of reduced basis weight such as made with a 17 grams per square meter gsm spunbonded web of this invention and 2 3 gsm meltblown web such barrier laminates could be used for example as barrier leg cuffs in diapers another type of nonwoven fabric laminate may be made by combining nonwoven web of this invention with a film for example a film of a thermoplastic polymer such as a polyolefin to make barrier fabrics useful for hygiene applications such as barrier leg cuffs and diaper backsheets fig4 illustrates one such laminate which includes a ply or layer 42 u2032 comprising a nonwoven web formed of a highly dispersed blend of polyolefin polymers such as the nonwoven fabric w of fig2 laminated to a polyolefin film layer 44 such as for example a polyethylene film of a thickness of 0 8 to 1 mil lamination and or bonding of the nonwoven layer 42 u2032 to the film layer 44 can be achieved by adhesive lamination using a continuous or discontinuous layer of adhesive this adhesive approach may yield a diaper backsheet with superior softness and hand the nonwoven fabric laminate could.