washleather

noun

1

: a soft leather usually made of split sheepskin dressed with oil in imitation of chamois

2

chiefly British : a piece of washleather or soft cloth used for dusting or cleaning : chamois

was flicking over the radiator with a washleather

—Nicholas Monsarrat

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