oilcloth

• “But to McGowan the oilcloth was a major setback, and he felt like a hypocrite for running around with his little notebook jotting down what materials the village chief used while an American officer flouted the rules.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Village

• “The floor is covered with what is called oilcloth -- I wonder why: it certainly is not the least like cloth -- very new and excessively shiny.”

  The Land of Promise

• “Then, the new oilcloth, which is actually a vinyl product, was born and oilcloth came back into vogue.”

  Blisstree

• “_Table baize_ is a kind of oilcloth used as a cheap and easily-cleaned covering for tables.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “There was a favourite umbrella with wooden ribs, covered with a kind of oilcloth, red or yellow in colour, which was a cheap and useful article.”

  India and the Indians

• “Our "oilcloth" is printed vinyl bonded and supported with a woven cotton mesh.”

  An Island Life

• “You notice the kind of oilcloth they had on that upper entry, S'tira? ”

  The Minister's Charge

• “Only a few chairs are unoccupied at the oilcloth covered tables.”

  ray foreman | strange horses, ray’s diner & buddha or no buddha « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “Last night I dreamed I sailed the wide sea below Amalfi the boat stood on its stern in the tall swells there was the smell of oilcloth and fish nets and the hulk of an old ship laced with foam and far from shore you came up beside me”

  Fictionaut: falling

• “When in town, Saxon carried her oilcloth-wrapped telescope in her hand; but it was so arranged with loops, that, once on the road, she could thrust her arms through the loops and carry it on her back.”

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