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oil·cloth

 (oil′klôth′, -klŏth′)
n.
1. A heavy cotton fabric treated with linseed oil and pigments to make it waterproof.
2. A waterproof material made up of a layer of vinyl and a layer of cotton or a synthetic fabric.
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oilcloth

(ˈɔɪlˌklɒθ)
n
1. (Textiles) waterproof material made by treating one side of a cotton fabric with a drying oil, or a synthetic resin
2. another name for linoleum
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oil•cloth

(ˈɔɪlˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ)
n.
a cotton fabric made waterproof by treatment with oil and pigment.
[1690–1700]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.oilcloth - cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
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Translations

oilcloth

[ˈɔɪlklɒθ] Nhule m, encerado m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

oilcloth

[ˈɔɪlklɒθ]
ntoile f ciréeoil drum nbaril m de pétroleoil embargo nembargo m pétrolier
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oilcloth

[ˈɔɪlˌklɒθ] ntela cerata
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References in classic literature ?
A MINUTE afterwards Hunca Munca, his wife, put her head out, too; and when she saw that there was no one in the nursery, she ventured out on the oilcloth under the coal-box
Two half-grown boys and a girl stood holding oilcloth bundles, and a little girl clung to her mother's skirts.
Then a man ran out of the draper's with a roll of oilcloth, and off they went again.
She sat quivering while a member of the lower orders deposited a metal funnel, a saucepan, and a garden squirt beside the roll of oilcloth.
They sat down to a table covered with an oilcloth cut in slits by penknives.
My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in oilcloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold.
This table had a cover made out of beautiful oilcloth, with a red and blue spread-eagle painted on it, and a painted border all around.
There was a square of oilcloth in front of each article of furniture and a drawn-in rug beside the single four poster, which was covered with a fringed white dimity counterpane.
His equipment is a drab great-coat, a hat covered with an oilcloth, top-boots, an umbrella in one hand and a small portmanteau in the other.
"I've covered her with oil-cloth--best American oilcloth, and put the sheet over that, and four jars of disinfectant, on account of the smell--as they did at Moscow--you remember?
"A table covered with a dark oilcloth took up all the middle of the little room.
I suppose you have a notion I should be getting out of the way of that dirt," said Captain MacWhirr, speaking with the utmost simplicity of manner and tone, and fixing the oilcloth on the floor with a heavy stare.