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dishclout
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Definition:1. a dish rag---2. A dirty, greasy womanFrancis Grose. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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BELLO: (Satirically) By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. Won't that be nice? (He places a ruby ring on her finger) And there now! With this ring I thee own. Say, thank you, mistress.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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At the Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. They're called dishclouts.
Victor Hugo. Les Miserables.
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