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
Atelier Saucier, a Los Angeles company that specializes in stylish napkins and place mats made from surplus material from fashion houses, has just added oilcloth place mats and tablecloths to its line.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
But, like the author, we snag on that Polish word, and its suggestion of cold oilcloth, garden tomatoes, and stove fumes.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
I didn’t have to be told that Uncle Camp was under the oilcloth.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Some examined knapsack and haversacks, good oilcloths, belts, rolled blankets, canteens, cartridge-boxes and cartridges, picked up upon the road.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
Blankets rolled up, oilcloths, overcoats, tents, all of the very best material, piled up by the hundreds and thousands.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus
All along there was underfoot much of soldiers' impedimenta—knapsacks, belts, accoutrements of all kinds, rolled blankets and oilcloths, canteens.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
In addition our party was provided with oilcloths for the better protection of the stores, and with mosquito netting.
From The Red Miriok by Barnes, Anna M.
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 Johnston, Mary
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