A cloth or rag used for dusting surfaces and removing dust from furniture or objects.
Compound of 'dust' and 'rag' (from Old Norse 'rogg', meaning tuft or shaggy hair). This practical household term emerged naturally from combining the material with its function.
Dustrags are one of the oldest cleaning tools humans invented—basically any cloth works, which is why the word is so simple and timeless. Ancient civilizations used similar rags, just with different names.
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