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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

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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