waxcloth

/ ˈwæksˌklɒθ /

noun

1. another name for oilcloth
2. another name for linoleum

Example Sentences

It is a busy industrial town with large dye-works and manufactures of machinery, snuff, tobacco, waxcloth, gelatine, furniture and biscuits.

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Then she showed him her whole treasure, and they tried to hide it in different places; at last this spring they shut it up in a box and throwing the waxcloth into the butcher's yard, proceeded to bury the money in the garden.

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This is the pocket-book!" and he held out to Br�sig a piece of black waxcloth.--"

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He asked Kurz from whom he had bought the manure; where the carts were loaded; what sort of man Kr�ger, the butcher, was; and then he again stood still, folded the pocket-book and examined the tear in the waxcloth and the seal, till Kurz forgetting his anger stared at him, lost in wonder that he should feel so little sympathy with him in his unlucky farming transaction.

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Hawermann found the mayor at home, and told him of his discovery; he folded the waxcloth by the tear, and the mayor became more and more interested every moment.

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