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floorcloth

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[flawr-klawth, -kloth, flohr-] / ˈflɔrˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ, ˈfloʊr- /

noun

floorcloths plural
  1. a cloth for washing or wiping floors.

  2. a piece of cloth or the like, as crash, drugget, or linoleum, used with or without a carpet for covering a floor.

  3. ground cloth.


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Etymology

Origin of floorcloth

First recorded in 1740–50; floor + cloth

Example Sentences

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In one part of the room an old woman was kneeling down scrubbing the floorcloth.

From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

They decided that they must dig a large pit nightly and cover it as best they could with their floorcloth.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

The wind fell at noon on the following day, and the wretched travelers then crept from their icy nests, spread the floorcloth over their heads, and lit their primus.

From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Turley, Charles

Her Majesty is no stranger to a vault or firmament, of a sort of floorcloth, with an indistinct pattern distantly resembling eyes, which occasionally obtrudes itself on her repose.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles

It was a neat, dull little house, on the shady side of the way, with new, narrow floorcloth in the passage, and new, narrow stair-carpets up to the first floor. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles

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