kleenex

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  1. A piece of soft absorbent tissue paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief; -- still a current trademark, but often used generically.

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  1. a piece of soft absorbent paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief

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  • Nylon and kleenex are trade names, born at the conference table, which gave us such valuable additions as sudsy, deep-down goodness and LS/MFT. —  SEPTEMBER, 1953 Vol
  • According to your logic, green spaces are not worth anything because trees do not appear on balance sheets until they are made into plywood, kleenex, toilet paper, etc. —  BlueOregon
  • I totally cracked up at that ^ .. reminded of my Mom spitting on a kleenex, and then attempting to clean my face when I was a kid ... —  MightyRighty.com - Conservative News, Discussion and Community
  • The difference, though, is that when you ask for a kleenex and receive a tissue, no one cares. —  doggdot.us
  • People may use those terms in a generic way, but a company making a dry-process copier definitely can't refer to it as a "xerox machine", nor can a company selling tissues refer to them as "kleenex", nor can a company making adhesive bandages refer the them as "bandaids". —  PalmInfocenter
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