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li·no·le·um 
[li-noh-lee-uhm] Pronunciation Key
[li-noh-lee-uhm] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns. |
| 2. | any floor covering similar to this. |
[Origin: 1863; < L līn(um) flax, linen + oleum oil; formerly trademark]
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| li·no·le·um
(lĭ-nō'lē-əm) Pronunciation Key
n. A durable, washable material made in sheets by pressing a mixture of heated linseed oil, rosin, powdered cork, and pigments onto a burlap or canvas backing. Linoleum is used as a covering especially for floors. [Originally a trademark.] |
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linoleum
linoleum
1860, coined by Eng. inventor Frederick Walton from L. linum "flax, linen" + oleum "oil." Originally, a preparation of solidified linseed oil used to coat canvas for making floor coverings; the word was applied to the flooring material itself after 1878. The Linoleum Manufacturing Company was formed 1864.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Linoleum
Li*no"le*um\ (l[i^]*n[=o]"l[-e]*[u^]m), n. [L. linum flax + oleum oil.]1. Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied. 2. A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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