oilcloth
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“Swap out the linen cloth for a wipeable oilcloth when it’s time for the kids to do homework or an art project,” she advises.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Apart from the boiler, other items on the tank include an oilcloth table cloth from the family's summer house, new Disney bedsheets for her children and a red blanket, she says.
From BBC ● May 31, 2022
Spiotta and I sat in a diner in Cooperstown, a road atlas open on the apple-print oilcloth.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2016
Afterward, he mopped the oilcloth clean and took down the Hebrew books with their crumbling leather spines.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2013
Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Guess she can stand three 'r four days in our company, smellin' oilcloths, fish, kerosene, an' punk t'bacco."
From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by Harold MacGrath
We had only the clothes we stood in, and no bed-clothing but the camels' pads and two oilcloths.
From A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H. Swinburne
Officers had had a hard day; they slept perhaps somewhat soundly, wrapped in their oilcloths, in the chilly rain, by the smallest of sputtering camp-fires.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
Superannuated mail coaches carried blankets, oilcloths, sabres, shoes; light spring wagons held Enfield rifles; doctors' buggies medicine cases corded in with care.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
In addition our party was provided with oilcloths for the better protection of the stores, and with mosquito netting.
From The Red Miriok by Anna M. Barnes
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