What is "dustcloth"

Usage examples of "dustcloth".

In the pantry, something like a dustcloth or a rag used to polish silver fluttered coyly into view and vanished.

A young woman, a servant of some kind probably, was shaking a dustcloth out of a window on the ground floor of the house.

She could not simply wish a thing clean, but had to whistle a broom into an appropriately useful motion, a dustcloth into yet another, and the dishcloth, ladles, spits, polishing rags, and so on, each into its own movement.

She had picked it up for a swipe of the dustcloth on the piano top and put it down again.

Albert, who served as butler-chauffeur and maintenance man, walked in right then with a dustcloth in his hand.

Muriel was at the door to welcome the delegation, whisking off her apron and hiding a dustcloth behind her back.

Noting the piles of money naked and unprotected she unfurled her dustcloths and covered them, leaving them looking rather like loaves of bread rising on the shelves.

No one would ever be able to tell that most of the furniture in the place had been shrouded in dustcloths only this morning.

But soon she was making pots of tea, dredging up dustcloths and bottles of Windex, and feverishly running the vacuum cleaner.