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Definition of Floorcloths
1. floorcloth [n] - See also: floorcloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floorcloths
Literary usage of Floorcloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historic Building Interiors: An Annotated Bibliography by Anne Grimmer (1994)
""History and Technology of floorcloths." Association for Preservation Technology
... This thorough study of painted floorcloths presents the methods of ..."
2. British Manufacturing Industries by George Phillips Bevan, Bevan, George Phillips, 1829?-1889 (1876)
"... and other floorcloths." Oil thus treated and combined with cork is now
extensively manufactured under the name of linoleum, which forms the third and ..."
3. The One Primeval Language Traced Experimentally Through Ancient Inscriptions by Charles Forster (1852)
"Household utensils, or wares, floorcloths, the tiger skins both carried, and laid
down. The next word, ^ sdn, supplies a sense self-evidencing, viz. ..."
4. The One Primeval Language by Charles Forster (1853)
"The first word es, tsui, Utensilia et strata domus, sc. Household utensils, or
wares, floorcloths, the tiger skins both carried, and laid down. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Public Lending Library by Public Lending Library of Victoria, Victoria Public library, Melbourne, Melbourne Public library, Australia Victoria (1902)
"See VERNE, J. Floating-matter of the air, Essays on. Tyndall, J ... 614 floorcloths.
Silver, A. floorcloths. (In White, G., ed. Practical designing) . ..."
6. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Bombay (India : Presidency), Bombay (India : State), Bombay (Presidency), India (1884)
"Large numbers of floorcloths printed in Belgaum and other districts are also brought
... floorcloths last only two or three years, while good carpets last ..."
7. The Common Things of Every-day Life: A Book of Home Wisdom for Mothers and by Anne Bowman (1857)
"To Clean floorcloths. floorcloths may be cleaned with the magnesia mixture, only
milk-warm, followed by the warm water ..."
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