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Definition of Tablecloths
1. tablecloth [n] - See also: tablecloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tablecloths
Literary usage of Tablecloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts by Francis Wharton (1857)
"... it then and there became and was a material question, whether three tablecloths
which were then and there produced before the said good and lawful men, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1870)
"... it then and there became and was a material question, whether three tablecloths,
which were then and there produced before the said good and lawful men, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1845)
"... that is to say, that the three tablecloths which were then and there, to wit,
at the time and place last aforesaid, produced, then were her son's, ..."
4. A Guide to Laundry-work: A Manual for Home and School by Mary Davoren Chambers (1915)
"STRETCHING SHEETS, tablecloths, ETC. PRESSING, MANGLING, IRONING AND FOLDING OF
BED AND TABLE LINEN. DIAGRAMS OF FOLDING As each piece is removed from the ..."
5. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts by Francis Wharton (1849)
"... that the three tablecloths which were then and there, to wit, at the time and
place last aforesaid produced, then were her son's (meaning were the ..."
6. My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia by Henry Morton Stanley (1895)
"In Persia — Scenes in Resht — A Tour through the Streets with a Guard of Honour —
Gorgeous Persian tablecloths — Manners and Customs — Straggling through a ..."