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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trade-name for a kind of linoleum or oil-cloth, embossed and colored in various designs, intended as a covering for the surface of walls and ceilings. It is made with wood-fiber, oxidized linseed-oil, resinous matter, and pigment. In full, lincrusta Walton.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of Lincrusta.

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Examples

  • It was not his taste; but in its own substantial, lincrusta way it was the acme of comfort and security.

    In Chancery 2004

  • It was not his taste; but in its own substantial, lincrusta way it was the acme of comfort and security.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery John Galsworthy 1900

  • It was not his taste; but in its own substantial, lincrusta way it was the acme of comfort and security.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • It was not his taste; but in its own substantial, lincrusta way it was the acme of comfort and security.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • "Malibran," a tall narrow structure resembling a grain-elevator divided into cells, where linoleum and lincrusta simulated the stucco and marble of the Stentorian, and fagged business men and their families consumed the watery stews dispensed by "coloured help" in the grey twilight of a basement dining-room.

    The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

  • The lower level has a billiard room with original wood wainscoting and lincrusta, a type of embossed wall covering.

    NYT > Home Page By MIKE POWELL 2010

  • The lower level has a billiard room with original wood wainscoting and lincrusta, a type of embossed wall covering.

    NYT > Home Page By MIKE POWELL 2010

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  • "The room was very high with a lincrusta ceiling and an elaborate mantelpiece of brawn-like marble."

    Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, p 91 of the Plume paperback edition

    March 13, 2012

  • A langosta ceiling would go well with a prawn-like marble mantlepiece.

    March 13, 2012