Linoleum meaning

lĭ-nō'lē-əm
A hard, smooth, washable floor covering.
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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.
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Any floor covering similar to linoleum.
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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.
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Origin of linoleum

  • Originally a trademark
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Coined c. 1864 by inventor Frederick Walton, from Latin linum (“flax") + oleum (“oil"). Used as a trade name but never registered as a trademark, it was the first product whose name was ruled to be genericized.
    From Wiktionary

Linoleum Sentence Examples

  • Indeed, this and the kindred linoleum business (also due to Nairn, who in 1877 built the first linoleum factory in Scotland) were for many years the monopoly of Kirkcaldy.

  • At West New Brighton is a large dyeing establishment, there are also ship-building yards, oyster fisheries, and truck farms, and among the maufactures are linoleum, paper, white lead, linseed oil, brick, and fire-clay products.

  • It is a shipping point; the Standard Oil Company has a large refinery here, and among its manufactures are asphaltum for street paving, linoleum and men's garments.

  • Among the city's manufactures are canned fruits and vegetables, condiments, glass-ware, brass and iron-work, hosiery, linoleum and oil-cloth.

  • steel pens, chronometers, electric and electric-telegraph plant,, bronze, chemicals, soap, lamps, linoleum, china, pianofortes, furniture, gloves, buttons, artificial flowers and ladies' mantles, the last of an annual value exceeding £5,000,000.

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