Also spelled table-cloth
noun
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noun
A cloth that you spread over a table, especially when eating.
She covered the table with a white tablecloth before dinner.
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tablecloths
Etymology
From Middle English tabyllcloth, table cloth, tabylle clothe, a partial translation of earlier Middle English bord cloth, bordcloth (“tablecloth”), from Old English bordclāþ, equivalent to table + cloth.
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