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  • present participle of floor.
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flooring

[flawr-ing, flohr-] / ˈflɔr ɪŋ, ˈfloʊr- /


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Custom hardwood floors imported from France run throughout the home for a touch of warmth, both aesthetically and through the radiant-heated flooring that complements them.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

“The hand-plastered, faux-painted walls all gave it a little bit of a European touch. The limestone flooring we used all added to that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"It was absolutely empty - no furniture, no cooker, no fridge, nothing and no flooring," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The small house includes a functional kitchen, wood flooring, and a bathroom, allowing the researchers to recreate ordinary household cleaning activities.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

She crawls along the center beam, from which the narrow planks of flooring emanate, toward the stone bulk of the chimney at the far end.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Items for which demand was last week reported high: Beer glasses and mugs, mirrors, linen, uniforms for barkeeps and barmaids, cabinet work including paneling for bars, murals, mosaic and composition floorings; also sausage, pretzels, pickles.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You'd have swamped her in another hour or two—the cabin floorings are all awash."

From Vane of the Timberlands by Harold Bindloss

In providing floorings, the greatest care should be taken to avoid anything liable to become slippery to the tread.

From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop

Condensed moisture glistened on the low roof-beams; the floorings were damp and littered with coils of rope.

From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss

The porters and the Swiss burned the poles of the chairs, and even the floorings and wainscots intended for the great gallery.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black


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