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drop cloth
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noun
a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
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Origin of drop cloth
First recorded in 1925β30
Words nearby drop cloth
drop biscuit, drop black, drop box, drop by, drop cannon, drop cloth, drop cookie, drop curtain, drop-dead, drop-dead date, drop-dead fee
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How to use drop cloth in a sentence
As I mentioned, a space blanket even makes a clean drop cloth for field dressing game.
The life-saving space blanket has humble origins|By Keith McCafferty/Field & Stream|January 21, 2021|Popular-ScienceFor the moment itβs just a big glass room filled with wicker furniture covered in drop cloths, empty stone planters, and flagstone pathways.
I stood in front of a black drop cloth in an old factory building in Brooklyn.