face cloth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
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
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