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dustcloth

[duhst-klawth, -kloth] / ˈdʌstˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ /


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Or hums scout songs while she plies the dustcloth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Incidentally, about that hanky �you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79� at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth.

From Time Magazine Archive

WINDOWS—A dustcloth applied by John Galsworthy to the cloudy philosophy of six variant individuals concerned with the redemption of a workhouse girl returned to civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had a horror of untidiness: an English friend describes how she impatiently snatched a dustcloth from a shiftless amah one day and dusted a whole room, exclaiming against dirt.

From Time Magazine Archive

One cold afternoon Mrs. Little was shaking her dustcloth out of the window when she noticed a small bird lying on the windowsill, apparently dead.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White




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