sponge cloth

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   any soft porous fabric (especially in a loose honeycomb weave)

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Questions about sponge cloth

What does sponge cloth mean?

sponge cloth means "any soft porous fabric (especially in a loose honeycomb weave)".

Is sponge cloth a common word?

sponge cloth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.