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face cloth

British  

noun

  1. US equivalent: washcloth.  a small piece of cloth used to wash the face and hands

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Let's go back to using a face cloth or cotton wool that gets disposed of in a dustbin and not flushed down the toilet," she suggested.

From BBC Sep. 30, 2021

But she never took her eyes from the eyeholes in the face cloth that hung from the man’s pointed hood.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

As Anna laid the face cloth over the marble features, she started back.

From Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days by Piper, Anna W. Ford

Whereon I came Trembling to thee, whose brow is like a god's, And wept and drew the face cloth from my babe, Praying thee tell what simples might be good.

From The Light of Asia by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stept, Took the face cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept.

From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various

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