American cloth

plural American cloths

1. UKA type of cloth with a shiny, water-resistant surface (enamelled cloth (US)); (also), a type of cotton cloth originally made in the United States and traded in the Levant.First known use 19th c.

   Miriam saw a long wide dining-room table covered with brown American cloth.

   1916, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater

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   […] who sat on two benches before a long table covered with American cloth and set out with immense plates of bread and dripping and two brown jugs that faintly steamed.

   1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 4