linoleumn.
/lᵻˈnəʊlɪəm/, U.S. /ləˈnoʊliəm/ A kind of floor-cloth made by coating canvas with a preparation of oxidized linseed-oil.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > floorcloth > types of
wax-cloth1816
linoleum1878
corticine1880
cork carpet1906
lino1907
cork lino1909
spit and sawdust1937
1878 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 7 834 A Mr. Walton obtained several patents, the last and principal being in 1863, for preparing floorcloth by means of a certain solidified or oxidised oil, to which he gave the name ‘Linoleum’, and the floor-cloth made by him therewith had been called and known as ‘Linoleum Floor-Cloth’ and apparently also as ‘Linoleum’... In 1864 the Linoleum Manufacturing Company..was formed.
1879 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl.
1895 Daily News 21 Nov. 9/4 Furnishers, upholsterers, carpet and linoleum warehousemen.
Derivatives
linoleumed adj. /lɪˈnəʊlɪəmd/
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with floorcloth
oilclothed1838
floor-clothed1843
linoleumed1892
linoed1933
1892 Pictorial World 21 May 104/1 A chilly tiled or linoleumed passage.
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n.1878