dishcloth
noun
dishclout
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a variation of
dishcloth.
Example Sentences
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Men would emerge from their rooms, fully dressed, with the dishclout in one hand and the hand-basin in the other—on the way to their morning tub.
From Across China on Foot by Edwin John Dingle
Mony time I hae got a wipe wi' a towel, but ne'er a daub wi' a dishclout before.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
What good he expects to get, laying there like a damp dishclout, I don't know!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Romeo's a dishclout to him; an eagle, madam, Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye As Paris hath.
From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
In her anger she did not see the sloppy dishclout on the scullery chair, on which she sank exhausted by her rage.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
