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drop cloth

or 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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RELATED WORDS

tarpaulin, groundsheet, tarp

Nearby words

drop biscuit, drop black, drop box, drop by, drop cannon, drop cloth, drop cookie, drop curtain, drop dead, drop elbow, drop foot

Origin of drop cloth

First recorded in 1925–30
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