dishclout

“Despardieux, milor,” said the Chevalier, “if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a torchon — what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron.”

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

"Despardieux, milor," said the Chevalier, "if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a _torchon_ -- what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron."

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

Gin ever he observes a proud professor, wha has mae than ordinary pretensions to a divine calling, and that reards and prays till the very howlets learn his preambles, that's the man Auld Simmie fixes on to mak a dishclout o '.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802

Ay, man, we mak a dishclout o't, an 'we wring't, an' we wring't, an 'we wring't, an' the bree [163] o't washes a 'the lave o' our prayers.”

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

Skinner took no part in it, till one minister remarked to him, “The great faut I hae to your prayer-book is that ye use the Lord's Prayer sae aften, ” ye juist mak a dishclout o't.”

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

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.

Happy Bloomsday Sam Jordison 2009

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.

Ulysses 2003

For not unfrequently it happens that, for some reason or another, one feels abased, and inclined to value oneself at nothing, and to account oneself lower than a dishclout; but this merely arises from the fact that at the time one is feeling harassed and depressed, like the poor boy who today asked of me alms.

Poor Folk 2003

The ride seems like eternity, it lapses off so gentle and smooth, and the landscape is so impressively similar: everywhere the plunging surf, the gray sand-hills, the dark cedars with foliage sliced off sharp and flat by the keen east wind -- their stems twisted like a dishclout or like the olives around Florence.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

Men would emerge from their rooms, fully dressed, with the dishclout in one hand and the hand-basin in the other -- on the way to their morning tub.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926