face cloth
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- noun
- UK
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toalla facial
- It would certainly work out a lot cheaper—even with washing the face cloths!
- a hot face cloth
So when the cleanse is all rubbed in, you just take a little face cloth, like a soft flannel, soak it in hot water and take everything off, which is what I'm going to do now.
- So when the cleanse is all rubbed in, you just take a little face cloth, like a soft flannel, soak it in hot water and take everything off, which is what I'm going to do now.
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"A face cloth
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Do you wash the face cloth after one use?
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And then we use a damp face cloth and we wipe it off.
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And then I'll use a face cloth to kind of take off and kind of slightly exfoliate as well.
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She goes to the bathroom and returns with a wet face cloth.
Fiction book (1995) -
Then I submerge my face cloth with water and rinse the majority of it out and go in with a damp face cloth so it's wet but it's not dripping wet.
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So when the cleanse is all rubbed in, you just take a little face cloth, like a soft flannel, soak it in hot water and take everything off, which is what I'm going to do now.
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She reached inside and pulled out a face cloth in a baggie, perfect for long car trips and slight head injuries, and placed it on Katherine's ear. Katherine calmed down once it seemed someone was vaguely in control.
Fiction book (2001) -
She goes to the bathroom and returns with a wet face cloth to clean her skin.
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When flight attendants made the rounds of the cabin with hot face cloths, she took one to refresh her face.
Synonyms
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A small square cloth to wash your face and body
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1.9
A small soft cloth used for washing the face or body
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A small cloth used to wash the face or body
A small soft cloth for washing your face
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Morphology
The meaning 'a small cloth used for washing the face' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'face' (the front part of the head) with 'cloth' (a piece of textile), following a common noun–noun compounding pattern indicating purpose or association. This transparent, literal formation is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The name face cloth comes from the simple picture of a face and a cloth: a small cloth used to wash your face. So, it means 'a small piece of soft cloth used for washing the face and body'.