Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a small towel used for drying the hands or face.
WordNet
n. a small towel used to dry the hands or face [syn: face towel]
Usage examples of "hand towel".
He plucked the hand towel from its rack and draped it over her thighs, removing temptation from sight, if not proximity.
There was no hand towel, probably it had been bagged and sent to the lab, where it would be checked for hair and fiber and stuff.
Face blank, Ivy put a hand towel across my shoulder to catch the renewed oozing.
Then I wiped the fog away from the mirror with a hand towel from the rack near the sink.
He rolled a dark green hand towel around her left wrist and whipped the tape around it, some rubbery beige product meant to mask specific areas during the application of aerosol cosmetics.
I went into the bathroom and took a hand towel and soaked it in cold water.
In the men's room I removed it and buried it in the hand towel basket beneath a pile of towels.