dustcloth

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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

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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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.

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At the top, two small pieces of dustcloth, cut into ears and glued in place.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds