dustcloth

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First thing she did when she walked into her musty old office in Washington was to call for 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

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.

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She took a dustcloth and the vacuum and went into the living room.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt