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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cloth to cover a table, especially during a meal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A horizontal sheet of cloud spreading over the top of Table Mountain, southwest of Cape Town, South Africa, and hanging down over the precipitous cliffs of the northeast front of the mountain.
  • noun A cloth for covering the top of a table.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a covering spread over a dining table

Etymologies

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From table +‎ cloth.

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