(n.) Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering floors, etc.
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Tablecloth
Definition:
(n.) A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Going through the airing cupboard recently, I came across the handmade duvet covers I used, stitched together by my mother from old sheets, tablecloths, and bits of lace.
(2) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(3) A tweet from the writer Polly Samson last night reported that Freud's regular table in The Wolseley restaurant was laid with a black tablecloth and a single candle in his honour.
(4) Photograph: Alamy The 15-minute flight from Ponta Delgaa to Santa Maria reveals the island as a tablecloth-sized tumble of five farming parishes: there are twice as many cows as people in the Azores, a fact borne out on Santa Maria, which has 10,000 cows and 5,500 people.
(5) He recalled how in his first attempt to woo his wife he asked her to dinner, and inadvertently put a duvet on the table rather than a tablecloth.
(6) Even the term technocrat is extraordinary: it pretends to divorce economics from politics, when all that happens is that vulgar material interests are disguised under a luxurious tablecloth.
(7) The overwhelmingly positive replies have reassured her, and she collects a few from the pile of new post and spreads them out over the worn red-checked tablecloth.
(8) It's just when I pour tea I do it all over the tablecloth.
(9) With high ceilings, white-washed walls, white tablecloths and old-school bow-tied waiters, the place has an air of Rio’s cool glamorous past about it.
(10) No one wants to sit down for a six-course, white-tablecloth meal at 1.30am and pay attention to their table manners.
(11) In the evenings, the dining room upstairs opens its doors and the starched tablecloths and napkins come out for those after a more formal dinner.
(12) Live with it" – to the warning that they don't pour your wine or use tablecloths, Y Polyn (mains from £10), this is a no-nonsense, all-about-the-food restaurant.
(13) Going in the other direction, this gridded tablecloth has a rather more bathetic and English character.
(14) The elegant dining room with its hatstands and mirrored walls, the cramped tables where a stranger is likely to be sharing a table with you once it starts to fill up and the waiters' memory skills and tradition of annotating your order on the paper tablecloth, then jotting down the additionusing it to work outadd up your bill.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Metropolitan police’s 3D graphic showing polonium contamination on the green baize tablecloth in Grosvenor Square.
(16) A disco ball spins above her head casting tiny lights on tablecloths your nan would dismiss as a being a bit fussy.
(17) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(18) The picturesque courtyard is a nice place to sit with a glass of wine, although the mismatched crockery and loud tablecloths may seem kitsch.
(19) Nuclear experts later found huge amounts of contamination on a small area of the green baize tablecloth.
(20) By the end of the season they are eating hamburgers alone from a white tablecloth with candelabra, while everyone calls them ‘sir’.