face cloth
Britishnoun
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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
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It is no easy matter for a boy to keep himself well washed and brushed with no face cloth or towel or brush, and no wash basin save the public sink.
From The Bishop's Shadow by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston
The face cloth in the illustration is made from white cheese cloth, cut bias.
From Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home by Mattie Phipps Todd
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 Sir Edwin Arnold
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