tablecloth
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A table with built-in grooves helps keep stemware steady and avoid spills on the tablecloth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Break out the nice plates and a clean tablecloth.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
There are 32 of the human thigh bones on each laminated white tablecloth.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Earlier that morning, Father Frank Cancro, 74, the National Circus Chaplain, laid out water, wine, communion wafers and a cross on a folding table adorned with a black tablecloth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
Mama had already spread her green tablecloth over the dining table.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
She picked up tables, taped down tablecloths and moved boxes to the side of the stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
It’s the moment when old-school French — think white tablecloths, heavy sauces and snooty maitre’d’s — faded into the background, allowing nouvelle cuisine and what we now call New American to take its place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
"Don't sit at home," said the entrepreneur, surrounded by embroidered dresses, scarves and tablecloths.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Holly, 34, from Reading, hunted in charity shops and vintage fairs for foil decorations, satin baubles, tablecloths and china.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
The sheets so carefully embroidered, the linen tablecloths and the underwear the nuns had sewn ten years ago for Rosa, with the intertwined initials of Trueba and del Valle, were now part of Clara’s trousseau.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
