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face cloth

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noun

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

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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 Anna W. Ford Piper

It had not occurred to me that I was violating rigid custom in appearing in a hat and gauze veil rather than in a chadar and face cloth, but the mistake was made unpleasantly apparent.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Use white cotton curtain cords for the girdle and make the hood of the Turkish face cloth.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

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