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Definition of Oilcloths
1. oilcloth [n] - See also: oilcloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oilcloths
Literary usage of Oilcloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"The Rebels have no oilcloths and must be troubled with so much rain. June n, 1864.
Colonel Wright and I rode out to the front to-day. ..."
2. Tariff Handbook by Committee on Ways and Means, United States, United States Dept. of the Treasury, Congress (1913)
"Cotton cloth filled or coated, all oilcloths (except silk ... and oilcloths for
floors), and cotton window Hollands, three cents per square yard and twenty ..."
3. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"Do you know whether this is true, that instead of shelf oilcloths coming in under
that ... What kind of oilcloths are you talking about ? Mr. PALMER. ..."
4. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for by Horace Greeley (1910)
"Cotton cloth filled or coated, all oilcloths (except silk ... and oilcloths for
floors), and cotton window Hollands, three cents per square yard and twenty ..."
5. Hand Book of the United States Tariff: Containing the Tariff Act of 1913 by Vandegrift, F.B., & Co, William Watson Rich, United States (1913)
"... fiber is the component material of chief value, and tracing cloth, SO per
centum ad valorem; cotton cloth filled or coated, all oilcloths (except silk ..."
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