tablecloth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A cloth that you spread over a table, especially when eating.

   She covered the table with a white tablecloth before dinner.

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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