floorcloth

Area canvas rugs, today known as floorcloth, had their start in 18th century England.

The infancy and development of linoleum floorcloth, 1925, 56 pp.

Not real snow - just a white floorcloth.

Alan wiped up, leaving the dirty floorcloth in the dishrack, and looked over her shoulder.

That is, Wexford thought he had followed her but he came back almost immediately holding a floorcloth.

Words like since (floorcloth) are so widespread that they can be wrongly considered to be French.

Production of both floorcloth and linoleum occupied seven factories in the town by 1883, employing 1,300.

When the patent expired in 1876, Nairn and other floorcloth manufacturers began the manufacture of linoleum.

As a rubbery floorcloth fills with pockets of air, the performers wallow in its billowing waves.

Other factories producing floorcloth and later linoleum were established by former employees of Michael Nairn.

A floorcloth, or floor-cloth, is a term for a cloth, normally of flannel, used for cleaning floors.

The hallway beyond the door was plain, white-painted, the only concession to style or comfort a faded geometric floorcloth running the length of the hall.

Dark drops fell on the floorcloth one after another, with a sound of ticking growing fast and furious like the pulse of an insane clock.

The stage floorcloth was black as far back as the mound which the faun lies upon, and then green to the back of the stage.

'Where's the floorcloth?'

The Kirkwall Scroll is a hand painted roll of linen, probably used as a floorcloth, now in the care of a lodge in Orkney.

As all the dancers virtually drown later in the billowing floorcloth, to the sound of falling rocks, they fold and stretch their bodies in unexpected, flattened shapes.

For some time, its industries chiefly consisted of the making of linen and floorcloth, malting and quarrying, and there were fisheries, especially of salmon.

The production of linen which followed in 1672 was later instrumental in the introduction of floorcloth in 1847 by linen manufactuer, Michael Nairn.

The workshop is scheduled from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturday and Sunday, and each participant will make a 2-by-3-foot floorcloth.

Fluency is not accented here, and there will be those who will find "Scenario" a brave new world, as icelike as its white floorcloth, curved backdrop and glaring lights.

How to Stencil a Kitty Floorcloth: Produce a truly gorgeous floorcloth with this cat-inspired design at an intermediate to advanced level.

Boscobel, a restored 19th-century mansion, is on Route 9D in Garrison-on-Hudson, and in its foyer is a large painted floorcloth patterned with an 18th-century Greek key design.

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.

Originally developed in the town as floorcloth, this was quickly dominated by the Michael Nairn & Co but did not become popular across a worldwide scale until the beginning of the 20th century.