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drop cloth

NOUN
protective cloth
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Use a drop cloth to protect furniture and any areas you’re not painting, suggested Sarah Fishburne, Home Depot’s director of trend and design, in an email.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2022

Every night, he would roll up the drop cloth, vacuum and take a shower.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2021

The bags contained a cover for a bow saw, a receipt from a local hardware store, a drop cloth and a newspaper with the delivery address of an apartment house in Galveston.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

She’s also found that the mats work well as a drop cloth under a baby’s high chair and, in a pinch, as a compact bath mat.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2019

He started to work, furiously tinkering with the sphere, pulling out anything he thought would help from his magic tool belt: a drop cloth, metal extenders, some string and grommets.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan



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