kamptulicon

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  1. A kind of floor-cloth composed of india-rubber, gutta-percha, and ground cork. It is warm, soft, and elastic. The material was introduced about 1855. It is usually of a uniform dark-gray color, but is sometimes varied with colored patterns. Also called cork carpet.

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  • Linoleum or kamptulicon is warmer to the feet than the ordinary painted oilcloth 308. —  Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby
  • The riding school is lit with gas, and the lower part of the walls lined with kamptulicon, which never wears out, and prevents a horse being much injured should he by any chance kick or fall against it. —  The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
  • The offices of Fenton and Co. in Great St. Helens were handsome, prosperous-looking premises, consisting of two large outer rooms, where half-a-dozen indefatigable clerks sat upon high stools before ponderous mahogany desks, and wrote industriously all day long; and an inner and smaller apartment, where there was a faded Turkey-carpet instead of the kamptulicon that covered the floor of the outer offices, a couple of capacious, red-morocco-covered arm-chairs, and a desk of substantial and somewhat legal design, on which Gilbert Fenton was wont to write the more important letters of the house. —  Fenton's Quest
 

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  1. = French kamptulicon; a trade-name, from Greek καμπτός, flexible, +οὐλος, thick.
 

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