oilcloth

“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

There, inside an old country store with tables covered in colorful oilcloth, Heidi and Joe Trull present the kind of Southern meal you want to eat.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2013

A long square table filled the center of the room, and on the white oilcloth cover the places were set—plates, cups and saucers, and the cups upside down in the saucers.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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 Laughlin, J. E.

Each colour requiring a distinct set of blocks, those oilcloths with the greatest variety of colours are most expensive.

From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Babbage, Charles

All along there was underfoot much of soldiers' impedimenta—knapsacks, belts, accoutrements of all kinds, rolled blankets and oilcloths, canteens.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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