TABLECLOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tablecloth mean? 

• TABLECLOTH (noun)
  The noun TABLECLOTH has 1 sense:

1. a covering spread over a dining table

  Familiarity information: TABLECLOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TABLECLOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A covering spread over a dining table

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tablecloth" is a kind of...):

napery; table linen (linens for the dining table)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tablecloth"):

tea cloth (a small tablecloth)

 Context examples 

There was another thing I could have wished, namely, that Jip had never been encouraged to walk about the tablecloth during dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Dashwood could think of no other question, and Thomas and the tablecloth, now alike needless, were soon afterwards dismissed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If attached, choose to meet in a restaurant known for delicious food with an atmosphere of flowers, candlelight, perhaps a fireplace with a warm, crackling fire, and crisp white tablecloths. Heaven!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The commander in chief and his aides soon spread the tablecloth with an inviting array of eatables and drinkables, prettily decorated with green leaves.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It should be cozy, perhaps with wood paneling, snowy white tablecloths, and fresh flowers.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had a young friend who set up housekeeping with six sheets, but she had finger bowls for company and that satisfied her, said Mrs. March, patting the damask tablecloths, with a truly feminine appreciation of their fineness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)