linoleum

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  1. noun A durable, washable material made in sheets by pressing a mixture of heated linseed oil, rosin, powdered cork, and pigments onto a burlap or canvas backing. Linoleum is used as a covering especially for floors.

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  • The floor was speckled black linoleum, the walls an institutional green, the counters dingy yellow tile. —  Muller, Marcia - [McCone 08] Eye of the Storm UC FR.htm
  • Time had not dulled the yellow linoleum, and the heavy wooden doors were still imprisoned in layers of shiny orange paint, chipped in places and coated with a thin film of grime. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • Instead of rain and cold, sunshine and dust, I spent my days in an overheated atmosphere reeking of tweed and unbleached cotton, linoleum, and mercerized thread. —  Maigret’s Memoirs - Georges Simenon - 63
  • A kitchen opened off the end of the hall—one of the old-fashioned kind like All Souls', with black-and-white-checkered linoleum, a sink with a drainboard, and a hulking black iron range. —  process 11
  • Somewhere mid-linoleum, though, inspiration struck, and I stripped off my sweatshirt and slippers. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
 

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  1. Originally a trademark.

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  1. A trade-name, intended to mean ‘linseed-oil cloth’; from Latin linum, flax, + oleum, oil: see line and oil.
 

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/lɪˈnoʊləəm/
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