- present participle of floor.
flooring
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She still isn’t a fan of the linoleum flooring or the brown painted cabinets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, building-materials suppliers, such as roofing and flooring manufacturers, have struggled to make up lost business as homeowners opt to stay in their current homes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The ruins of rooms from Phoenician, Persian and Roman periods have been uncovered, their pink or grey flooring helping to distinguish them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
But there are still major problems, including uneven flooring, and they are now desperate to move out of their once-beloved home and into sheltered accommodation.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
These he covered with plywood flooring, making a large, rectangular platform, roughly the size of his room at home.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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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
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The partitions and floorings are now thrown down, and torn up, and the apartments occupied for six years by the hero before whom kings, emperors, and popes had quailed, are now tenanted by cart-horses!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various
They got down on the wet floorings, and Jimmy looked over the gunwale.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
The floorings of these houses are made of split bamboo, which offers but a precarious footing to the unsuspecting traveller, as holes are numerous, and a slip through would precipitate one forty feet below.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
“You’d have swamped her in another hour or two; the cabin floorings are all awash.”
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss