Linoleum \Li*no"le*um\ (l[i^]*n[=o]"l[-e]*[u^]m), n. [L. linum flax + oleum oil.] 1. Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.
2. A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.
Two-year-old Lacy, wearing nothing but one of her brothers' T-shirts, was racing bare-bottomed across the linoleum behind a hyperactive terrier mutt named Pee Wee.
Paul Cross, JRN's director of special projects, had to look to Hollywood, Calif., to find companies to reproduce the battleship linoleum used on the cafe's floors and the wheel-etched glass that bore the colonel's name on the front of the building.
Thousands of books were crammed on shelves, stacked on the floor and buried under desks _ everywhere except on a narrow ribbon of linoleum that snaked through the shop's two small rooms.
Dshamil Mufid-Zade made the linoleum print "Steel Forest," in which rows of metal towers pay a sad tribute to long-lost greenery, in 1980.
But the Depression, World War II and the growing popularity of linoleum and carpeting led to a decline in U.S. tile use.
More paper fills file folders lining the window sills; below, the scuffed linoleum floor is crisscrossed with wires leading to dial telephones.
Mr. Taylor's own "office" is a closet-sized slab of linoleum, with a small cluttered desk standing in a long traffic jam of other small desks.
A quasi-permanent set encroaches crudely on the stage (the dance looks cramped) and is seemingly made from giant crumplings of elephant-grey linoleum.