linoleum

Etymology
c. 1864 from. Used as a trade name but never registered as a trademark, it was the first product whose name was ruled to be.

Noun

 * 1) An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُشَمَّع
 * Armenian:
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 油地氈, ,
 * Czech:
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 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: linóleo
 * German:
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 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: リノリウム
 * Kazakh: линолеум
 * Macedonian: линоле́ум
 * Maori: kahupeka
 * Plautdietsch: Teppich
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: линолѐум
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: linoleum
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, korkmatta

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Usage notes

 * Prior to 1959, this noun was considered grammatically neuter.

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