dustcloth

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Or hums scout songs while she plies the dustcloth.

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Never had such an understanding boss," said the chauffeur as he nicked a dustcloth over the Rolls-Royce convertible.

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