floring

Middle English

Etymology

From Middle English floren (“to equip with a floor, to pave”), from Middle English flor (“floor, foundation”), Old English flōr (“floor, pavement, ground”).

Noun

floring (plural florings)

1. making a floor

   Pro le floryng, dalbyng..et le parchettyng. — Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, 1457

2. the floor of a room, building, or other structure

   Noe made a wyndow in his schippe..and housynge and cabans wiþ dyuers florynge. — Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 1387

   This mapil, ook, & asshe endureth longe In floryng..This flooryng wul be blak & wynter warm. — Palladius, c1440