oilcloth

English

Etymology

From oil +‎ cloth.

Pronunciation

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Noun

oilcloth (countable and uncountable, plural oilcloths)

1. A fabric or cloth treated on one side with a waterproof covering, especially one made from linseed oil etc.; used for flooring, tablecloths, kitchen shelves and sometimes furniture covering.

   Synonyms: (UK) American cloth, linoleum, leathercloth, waxcloth

   • 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 9, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 184:

     Ignatius pounded a paw into the oilcloth on the kitchen table.

   • 1995, Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir, page 346:

     When the Lincolns moved into the White House, it was not furnished, there was oilcloth on the floor in the State Rooms because of the overflow from the spittoons.

Translations

fabric or cloth

• Arabic: مُشَمَّع (mušammaʕ)
• Azerbaijani: müşəmbə (az)
• Bulgarian: мушама f (mušama)
• Catalan: hule (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油布 (zh) (yóubù)

• Esperanto: vakstolo
• Finnish: vahakangas (fi)
• French: toile cirée (fr) f
• Galician: hule m
• German: Wachstuch (de) n
• Irish: éadach ola m
• Italian: incerato (it) m, incerata (it) f
• Japanese: 油単 (ゆたん, yutan), オイルクロス (oirukurosu)
• Korean: 유포(油布) (ko) (yupo)
• Polish: cerata (pl) f
• Punjabi: ਮੋਮਜਾਮਾ m (momjāmā)
• Romanian: mușama (ro)
• Russian: клеёнка (ru) f (klejónka)
• Tagalog: ule
• Turkish: muşamba (tr)
• Ukrainian: клейонка f (klejonka)
• Welsh: oelcloth m

References

• “oilcloth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.