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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tablecloth
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
▪ He could see six glasses, wine-glasses, on the green and white tablecloth.
▪ Jasper and I had seen these animals on white tablecloths in quite a few restaurants.
▪ Red-and-#white checkered tablecloths contrast with the dark wood in the cozy two-part dining room reminiscent of a ski chalet.
▪ The rest was shrouded by a white linen tablecloth, which gave every appearance of being carefully arranged.
▪ It was decorated with thousands of black balloons, white roses, black bottles of champagne on white tablecloths.
▪ They draped the starched white tablecloth over the big deal table.
■ NOUN
linen
▪ The rest was shrouded by a white linen tablecloth, which gave every appearance of being carefully arranged.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth.
▪ He just stared at the tablecloth.
▪ It dripped on to the boomerang tablecloth.
▪ Lilian, give her the tablecloth and the napkins and show her the transfer.
▪ Meg took the coffee cups to the sink and fetched a tablecloth from the dresser.
▪ She was shaking a tablecloth when she looked up and saw him.
▪ The lilac tablecloths were still strewn across the floor where they had been pulled to the ground.
▪ The rest was shrouded by a white linen tablecloth, which gave every appearance of being carefully arranged.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tablecloth

Tablecloth \Ta"ble*cloth`\, n. A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tablecloth

also table-cloth, "cloth for covering the top of a table," mid-15c., from table (n.) + cloth.

Wiktionary
tablecloth

n. A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.

WordNet
tablecloth

n. a covering spread over a dining table

Wikipedia
Tablecloth

A tablecloth is a cloth used to cover a table. Some are mainly ornamental coverings, which may also help protect the table from scratches and stains. Other tablecloths are designed to be spread on a dining table before laying out tableware and food.

Ornamental tablecloths can be made of almost any material, including delicate fabrics like embroidered silk. Dining cloths are typically made of cotton, a poly-cotton blend, or a PVC-coated material that can be wiped clean, but they can range from functional coverings to fine textiles, as long as they can be laundered. Some cloths are designed as part of an overall table setting, with coordinating napkins, placemats, or other decorative pieces. Special kinds of tablecloth include runners which overhang the table at two ends only and table protectors to provide a padded layer under a normal cloth.

Usage examples of "tablecloth".

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

As another Blackshirt spread a dingy tablecloth across the floor by the chair I was tied to, the one with the bag drew out a thin length of rubber tubing with what appeared to be flanged steel needles at either end, and some metal clips.

The dirty dishes in the sink, me and the caseworker sitting at the kitchen table with the telephone and all her manila folders spread out on the yellow-and-white-check tablecloth, gin and tonics in hand at ten a.

He flailed for balance, snatched at the closest tablecloth and dragged a cascade of smashing china and chinking silver to the floor as he fell.

The meal was served in enormous helpings on damask tablecloths by the skilled Italian waiters Major - de Coverley had kidnaped from the mainland and given to Milo.

This manful confession fails to impress Agnes, who has pushed her plates out of her way, and now leans on the tablecloth, the better to continue her heart-to-heart with Henry.

Cross, and the Frenchers set their tablecloths to fluttering in the wind, with all the stains of fish-bones and venison steaks upon them.

Teckla was happy because his fretfulness seemed to be over, and happily she spread their supper on a black-and-red tablecloth in front of the shack.

The tables were covered in green tablecloths, and a variety of different colored plastic frogs were scattered among the finger food.

The table had been set with a sparkling white tablecloth and Passover dishes, matzah and bitter herbs and Avruhm read from the Haggadah in Hebrew.

The tablecloth is of Kashubian linen with an embroidered tulip pattern.

They were drinking Blue Nun Liebfraumilch and a Chinese buffet, brought in by three bland waiters, lay spread on a slightly damp tablecloth.

Tables decorated with black tablecloths groaned under the weight of food, as well as orange nonalcoholic punch and sparkling champagne.

Conway hastily reassured him that a plastic tablecloth was relatively valueless in the present circumstances, and beat a quick retreat from the place.

Clothing of all kinds, dolls, soaps and candles, hand-crafted aprons and quilts, lace tablecloths, fruits and vegetables, curtains, bird feeders, government surplus items, rocks, garden sheds, switchplates, old license plates, dog pillows and floor mats.