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† ˈhandcloth Obs.
[See cloth n. 1.]
A towel, a napkin; a duster.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 426 Ic ᵹeseo Godes engel stand⁓ende ætforan þe mid hand-claþe, and wipaþ þine swatiᵹan limu. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Hire handcloðes and hire bord cloðes ben makede wite. c1475Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 773/10 Hoc manitergium, a hand-clothe. [1839H. Rogers Ess. II. iii. 143 We cannot now speak, as did our Saxon ancestors..of hand-clath (hand-cloth) for towel.] |