tablecloth
(teɪbəlklɒθ , US -klɔːθ )
Word forms: tablecloths
countable noun B2
A tablecloth is a cloth used to cover a table.
It was green and cheerful with red check tablecloths and friendly waiters.
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Collocations:
paper tablecloth white tablecloth
The menu, scrawled each day on the paper tablecloth, has had bouillon as its signature dish since the day it opened.
Times, Sunday Times
The service was perfunctory and the bill was written on the paper tablecloth; it was first come, first seated, and you shared your table with strangers.
Times, Sunday Times
If we were out in the local café he would draw on the paper tablecloth or populate the table with people and animals made from corks, matchboxes or other debris.
Times, Sunday Times
Supposedly the idea it just struck him while eating, and he scrawled the concept on paper tablecloth, and it eventually blossomed into the fiendwurm.
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It's a snug spaghetti house with carnival masks on the walls and paper tablecloths.
Times, Sunday Times
Any farmers' gothic pub could improve itself immeasurably simply by throwing a white tablecloth on each table.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We sat down at a long table with a white tablecloth on it.
Broken Lives (1993)
What's wrong with a nice white tablecloth?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Behind the settle, there would be a round table with a white tablecloth.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A table, compete with white tablecloth, will be put up for you.
The Sun (2009)
Translations:
Chinese: 台布
Japanese: テーブルクロス