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linoleum

[ li-noh-lee-uhm ]

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noun

a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
any floor covering similar to this.

linoleum

/ lɪˈnəʊlɪəm /

a sheet material made of hessian, jute, etc, coated under pressure and heat with a mixture of powdered cork, linseed oil, rosin, and pigment, used as a floor covering Often shortened tolino

1863; < Latin līn ( um ) flax, linen + oleum oil; formerly trademark

C19: from Latin līnum flax + oleum oil

On the inside is the usual mix of off-white, flecked linoleum tiles and segmented ceiling panels, dull and dimly lit.

Painted arrows on the linoleum floor direct you where to stand in line.

In being gutted by a linoleum knife, that dark image that Hannibal had instilled in him had been freed.

Her door is the one at the far end of a linoleum hall, nearest the street.

He would slap me, hard, one time knocking me to the linoleum floor.

Out upon the linoleum 29 rolled the glistening coinsseveral of them gold piecesthat Jess had noted so greedily in the egg store.

The floor should be either of hard wood treated with "dustless oil" or of cork linoleum.

Among these black-jacketed waiters, armed with long mops, were scrubbing the linoleum-covered floor.

When the linoleum backing is finished at the calender, both cloth and centre are forwarded direct to the linoleum works.

Ted stared at her for a moment, and then began tracing what remained of the pattern in the linoleum with his walking stick.

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