dustcloth

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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.

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Or hums scout songs while she plies the dustcloth.

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They have dropped dustcloth and vacuum and hauled the children off to the new alleys, where fulltime nurses stand ready to baby-sit in the fully equipped nurseries.

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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