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oilcloth

[oil-klawth, -kloth] / ˈɔɪlˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ /
NOUN
tarpaulin
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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

Afterward, he mopped the oilcloth clean and took down the Hebrew books with their crumbling leather spines.

From The New Yorker Jan. 28, 2013

For example, the same oilcloth has covered the dining table ever since we’ve been here.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

Some of our soldiers visited the battlefield that night and next day, and brought in many trophies and mementoes of the day's fight, such as blankets, oilcloths, canteens, guns, etc.

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus

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 Johnston, Mary

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

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 Swinburne, Gwendolen H.




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