oilcloth

oilcloth

English

Etymology

From oil +‎ cloth.

Noun

oilcloth (countable and uncountable, plural oilcloths)

1. A fabric or cloth treated on one side with a waterproof covering, especially one made from linseed oil etc.; used for flooring, tablecloths, kitchen shelves and sometimes furniture covering.

   Synonyms: (UK) American cloth, linoleum, leathercloth, waxcloth

   • a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, chapter 9, in A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 184:

     Ignatius pounded a paw into the oilcloth on the kitchen table.

   • 1995, Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir, page 346:

     When the Lincolns moved into the White House, it was not furnished, there was oilcloth on the floor in the State Rooms because of the overflow from the spittoons.

Translations

fabric or cloth

Arabic: مُشَمَّع‎ (mušammaʿ) Azerbaijani: müşəmbə (az) Bulgarian: мушама f (mušama) Chinese: Mandarin: 油布 (zh) (yóubù) Esperanto: vakstolo Finnish: vahakangas (fi) French: toile cirée (fr) f Galician: hule m German: Wachstuch (de) n Irish: éadach ola m Italian: incerato (it) m, incerata (it) f Japanese: 油単 (ゆたん, yutan), オイルクロス (oirukurosu) Polish: cerata (pl) f Romanian: mușama (ro) Russian: клеёнка (ru) f (klejónka) Tagalog: ule Turkish: muşamba (tr)

References

• oilcloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913