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
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
The original illustrations show the flowering of Keats’s collage technique: Peter’s mother’s dress is checked oilcloth; the colorful buildings are cutouts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
The knife slipped from his hand, yet his arm remained twisted behind him, wrapped in the oilcloth.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
Camping outfits were all ready, and the boys observed that in addition to the winter’s supplies there were added large heavy oilcloths, like tarpaulins.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
"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
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
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 Mary Johnston
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