face cloth

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

"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

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 Todd, Mattie Phipps

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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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