Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of floor-cloth composed of india-rubber, gutta-percha, and ground cork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
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- noun archaic A kind of
elastic floorcloth , made ofIndia rubber ,gutta-percha ,linseed oil , and powderedcork .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Various
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We have in our church, kamptulicon right up to the altar!
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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 1875
reesetee commented on the word kamptulicon
Floor-cloth composed of a mixture of india rubber, guttapercha, and cork, mounted on canvas. A trade name, from the Greek for "flexible" and "thick."
October 23, 2008