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linoleum

[li-noh-lee-uhm] / lɪˈnoʊ li əm /


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Those avocado green appliances, Formica countertops, and linoleum floors were just as crappy as they appear in those sitcom reruns.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

Draw a line in the linoleum — and make sure he doesn’t cross it.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

We got some nice new linoleum on the floor.’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Last year, Gibson painted the kitchen walls blue and installed peel-and-stick floor tiles from WallPops over the dated yellow linoleum flooring, providing an inexpensive, albeit temporary, update.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

“Real big spender, huh?” my grandfather says, looking around at the linoleum floor, the plastic flower arrangements.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm