[ noun ] a covering spread over a dining table <noun.artifact>
Tablecloth \Ta"ble*cloth`\, n. A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
It ought, therefore, to do more than just survive yours. A white damask tablecloth can be ordered in various sizes to fit most domestic dining tables.
A PETITE, and well-dressed Chinese woman picked up a linen embroidered tablecloth in a bustling store on Kowloon's Granville Road, and gestured to the shopkeeper asking a price.
Brandon and Granillo hide the body in a chest, throw a tablecloth over it, and invite the victim's father, aunt and assorted friends to dinner: 'You sit at the head.'
Finger bowls and large mini tablecloth sized napkins are advisable.
They may burp and belch; they may slurp soup or tea with great gusto; they may spit shell and other inedibles onto the tablecloth by the plate.
Peter's manners were indeed quite poor, even for those days, and in Spa an eyewitness couldn't stop laughing as he watched Peter and his retinue greasing a tablecloth to slide the dishes along.