Re: American Cloth?-oddity


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Posted by Ed Kiser on April 02, 2004 at 19:51:18 from 205.188.116.10 user Kisered.

In Reply to: American Cloth? posted by Pam Adams on April 02, 2004 at 18:20:55:

When I was typing in these books, I also collected an assortment of what I referred to as "oddities" which are concepts that I did not understand as they reflected a language usage or some custom that I was not familiar with. In the WDODD.TXT collection (oddities of WDMTGTS) I see the following notation:
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P23
[he put away the Ship's papers, cleared the chart off the table,
and spread in place of it a wide strip of white, shiny
American cloth.]

I get the feeling that the adjective, "American", as used here, means
something other than "made in America". As to just what type of cloth
this is, is not obvious. Perhaps it is some sort of water resistant
material, where the fibers are filled in with some sort of plastic
material to make it shed water - just guessing here, really... It is
used here like some sort of tablecloth, but more utilitarian than
decorative. Maybe something I would call, "oilcloth".
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The answer I provided was, as I said, "just guessing". Perhaps now I can see the proper answer to this oddity.

Ed Kiser, South Florida


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