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Definition of Dustcloth

1. Noun. A piece of cloth used for dusting.

Definition of Dustcloth

1. Noun. A cloth used for dusting; a duster. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dustcloth

Literary usage of Dustcloth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of the Pullman Car by Joseph Husband (1917)
"... portable vacuum cleaners and his dustcloth, can keep the car tidy en route, but the real cleaning comes when the trip is over and a gang of professional ..."

2. South of Panama by Edward Alsworth Ross (1915)
"... the mission hospital But presently it became known that at times these English ladies could be seen openly plying broom and dustcloth about the mission. ..."

3. Healthful schools by May Ayres Burgess, Jesse Feiring Williams, Thomas Denison Wood (1918)
"... plants are installed, there has been devised special apparatus for removing chalk dust from troughs without the labor of using dustcloth or brush. ..."

4. Socializing the Child: A Guide to the Teaching of History in the Primary Grades by Sarah Ann Dynes (1916)
"... value easily appreciated by the pupils are portfolios, baskets for excursions, boxes for material, curtain strings and tassels, dustcloth bags, etc. ..."

5. Use Your Government: What Your Government Does for You by Alissa Franc (1918)
"Do little bits of cookery and housework; each child have little broom and her own dustcloth. It often happens that the absence of kindergartens in a ..."

6. Bookless Lessons for the Teacher-mother by Ella Frances Lynch (1922)
"Setting the table, using broom, dustcloth, dish-towel, hunting flowers and putting them in water, tidying a room, ..."

7. The Home and the Family: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Helen Kinne, Anna Maria Cooley (1917)
"... First Mollie takes to the room everything that she will need in the way of tools, — a soft dustcloth, a small brush and dustpan ..."

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