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flooring

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floor·ing  (flôrng, flr-)
n.
1. A floor.
2. Material, such as lumber or tile, used in making floors.

flooring
Noun
1. the material used in making a floor: pine flooring
2. a floor
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.flooringflooring - the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"
bell deck - a floor under the bells of an open belfry
dance floor - a bare floor polished for dancing
floorboard - the floor of an automobile
hall, hallway - an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall"
horizontal surface, level - a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line; "park the car on the level"
parquet, parquet floor - a floor made of parquetry
room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
truck bed - the floor or bottom of a wagon or truck or trailer
2.flooring - building material used in laying floors
building material - material used for constructing buildings
Translations
Spanish flooring [ˈflɔːrɪŋ] nsuelo;
(material) → solería

French flooring [ˈflɔːrɪŋ] floor nsol m;
(wooden) → plancher m (= material to make floor); matériau(x) m(pl) pour planchers (= covering); revêtement m de sol

German flooring [ˈflɔːrɪŋ] floor n(Fuß)boden m;
(covering) → Fußbodenbelag m

Italian flooring [ˈflɔːrɪŋ] n (= floor) → pavimento;
(material) → materiale m per pavimentazioni

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There was to be an addition--a small snuggery; there was to be frescoing, and hardwood flooring was to be put into such rooms as had not yet been subjected to this improvement.
When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.
In the first place, the black tulip had been produced; secondly, the Prince William of Orange, as a true Hollander, had promised to be present at the ceremony of its inauguration; and, thirdly, it was a point of honour with the States to show to the French, at the conclusion of such a disastrous war as that of 1672, that the flooring of the Batavian Republic was solid enough for its people to dance on it, with the accompaniment of the cannon of their fleets.
 
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