noun
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the material used in making a floor, esp the surface material
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another word for floor
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"It was absolutely empty - no furniture, no cooker, no fridge, nothing and no flooring," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The small house includes a functional kitchen, wood flooring, and a bathroom, allowing the researchers to recreate ordinary household cleaning activities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The interiors include an open-concept living area with a fireplace, along with a combination of carpet and wood-toned flooring.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
I followed him into the house, with its charred walls, ceiling and flooring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
She crawls along the center beam, from which the narrow planks of flooring emanate, toward the stone bulk of the chimney at the far end.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Items for which demand was last week reported high: Beer glasses and mugs, mirrors, linen, uniforms for barkeeps and barmaids, cabinet work including paneling for bars, murals, mosaic and composition floorings; also sausage, pretzels, pickles.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could hear the loose halyards slap the mast and the water splash about beneath the floorings, and the soft lapping of the tide along the planking.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
One of these bored cleanly through a slate-tiled roof, through furniture and two floorings and burrowed ten feet into the ground without exploding.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
The dog jumped into the canoe with them, and when they got on board he quietly sat down on the floorings while Jake helped the boys to hoist the mainsail.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
The pump was clanking hard, but he could hear the water wash about under the floorings, and the launch was very wet.
From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
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