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Origin of floorcloth
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The house is small, and has been elegantly fitted up; in the gardens were some detached and pleasant apartments, constructed with floorcloth of Kensington manufacture.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832 by Various
She rose quietly and washed out her floorcloth, and stood drying her hands on the roller towel which hung on the kitchen door.
From Purple Springs by McClung, Nellie L.
Every night, they decided, they must dig a large pit and cover it as best they could with their floorcloth.
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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