oilcloth

From oil +‎ cloth.

oilcloth (countable and uncountable, plural oilcloths)

1. A fabric or cloth treated on one side with a waterproof covering, especially one made from linseed oil etc.; used for flooring, tablecloths, kitchen shelves and sometimes furniture covering.

   Synonyms: (UK) American cloth, linoleum, leathercloth, waxcloth

   • a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, chapter 9, in A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 184:

     Ignatius pounded a paw into the oilcloth on the kitchen table.

   • 1995, Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir, page 346:

     When the Lincolns moved into the White House, it was not furnished, there was oilcloth on the floor in the State Rooms because of the overflow from the spittoons.

• “oilcloth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.