Belgium

torchon

Meaning

a cloth for washing the floor

Elsewhere

serpillière

Explanation

A French torchon dries the dishes. In Belgium and Canada the same word is the cloth you mop the floor with, the thing France calls a serpillière.

Example

Passe un coup de torchon sur le carrelage, il est plein de traces.

Give the tiles a wipe with the floor cloth, they're covered in marks.

Origin

From the Old French torçon, related to torche plus the -on ending.

Where

BelgiumCanada

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