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tableclothy

tableclothy adjective: resembling or typified by tablecloths.

Adjective

tableclothy (comparative more tableclothy, superlative most tableclothy)

  1. (informal) Resembling or typified by tablecloths.
    • Always an ambitious dresser, this morning she'd got herself up in her favourite grass-green poncho, which was a Paisley-printed wool tableclothy affair, edged with short, matted black fringes.2004, Erica Munro, Guilty Feet, page 31
    • Rabbit meal number two was in the guidebooks' favourite restaurant, a serious, tableclothy sort of place, obviously proud of its three forks.2004, William Black, Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy, page 253

Forms of tableclothy

comparativemore tableclothy
superlativemost tableclothy

Origin of tableclothy

From tablecloth + -y.

Questions about tableclothy

What does tableclothy mean?
Tableclothy means resembling or typified by tablecloths.
What part of speech is tableclothy?
Tableclothy is an adjective.

Words near tableclothy in the dictionary

  1. tablebook
  2. tablebooks
  3. tablecloth
  4. tableclothed
  5. tablecloths
  6. tableclothy
  7. tabled
  8. tableegh
  9. tablefellow
  10. tablefellows
  11. tablefellowship

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