Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silk gossamer stuff.
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- noun Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, informal Abbreviation of
linoleum .
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- noun a floor covering
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you take your kids in there then you should expect them to hear colourful language. like it loath it, 20k fans calling a lino or an opposition a cunt adds to the atmosphere and builds an intimidating atmosphere. it is all part of being the 12 man in my books
WordPress.com News 2009
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But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the char-woman wiping over the "lino" in the passage.
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(link) Suddenly I am wondering if the American lack of the short term "lino" means that the Minneapolis suburb called Lino Lakes would amuse you.
mrissa: 2010: a not-very-carpeted odyssey mrissa 2010
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I am standing, dripping and shivering, on the cold lino of the Palmers Green bathroom, just out of the big enamel bath, pleading, "Dry me, Mummy, I'm freezing", and then sitting on her lap, warmly wrapped in that same towel with its pale green stars.
Family life 2011
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I was thinking the bamboo would be more feet friendly but new school lino or recycled rubber sound intriguing.
Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something. 2010
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They don't have to hire somebody to mop their lakes of lino.
mrissa: 2010: a not-very-carpeted odyssey mrissa 2010
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It was, by accident, probably the right call but I'm not sure the lino, sorry assistant ref, could have seen from where he was.
Copa América 2011: Paraguay v Venezuela – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2011
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The decor is pure nicotine, the furnishings bare, with an impressive bar, frayed red lino flooring and a sailing ship lampshade.
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Since the end of the Christmas holidays Nick had kept the sling on only in public and spent his disability pay renovating the rec room - laying down lino, covering the walls with mirror tile and constructing overhead shelves which he filled with booze of every description.
Radium Carol Reid 2010
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Burton was talking to Gray off-air on the touchline at Molineux before the kickoff on Saturday and said: "Apparently a female lino today, bit of a looker."
Sky Sports Soccer Commentator Fired Over Sexist Comments AP 2011
Prolagus commented on the word lino
I said "My celibate days are over"
You put me straight on the finer points of my speech rehearsed
In the mirror of my steamy bathroom
Where the lino tells a sorry story in a monologue.
(My wandering days are over, by Belle and Sebastian)
September 10, 2008