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 Translation for 'tablecloth' from English to Italian
NOUN   a tablecloth | tablecloths
tovaglia {f}tablecloth
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Translation for 'tablecloth' from English to Italian

tablecloth
tovaglia {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Thus, we place the challot beneath a challah cover and over a tablecloth (or challah board) to recreate the miracle of the manna at our own Shabbat tables.
  • Traditionally, dinners are held on a tablecloth on the floor, which is called the "dastarkhan". Meals are normally eaten with the right hand. After a meal, tea with dessert is served.
  • According to tradition, bits of hay are spread beneath the tablecloth as a reminder that Christ was born in a manger.
  • A portrait of Mar by Adam de Colone of 1626 gives his age as 64 years. The painter used a fine but old linen tablecloth as a support rather than canvas.
  • A popular "magic trick" involves pulling a loaded tablecloth away from a table but leaving the plates behind. This trick relies on inertia. It is known as a tablecloth pull or a tablecloth yank.

  • The initial design was sketched on a white tablecloth of the restaurant where Aalto and Kokkonen were dining after visiting the site. The main design work was carried out in 1967-69.
  • British traveller Rachel Harriette Busk registered a version from Matanzas, in Cuba, about a family man named Perrico, who is given the purse, a tablecloth and a stick from a sprite (a goblin).
  • The peasants decide not to return home until they find the right answer. In the prologue, they also find a self-assembled tablecloth that will feed them, and hit the road.
  • Another problem is the tablecloth in the grand dining room that had been over starched and was impossible to iron with the public only noticing the creases and not the magnificent table settings.
  • The pigment analysis done by Hermann Kühn shows Vermeer's use of the expensive natural ultramarine in the tablecloth, lead-tin-yellow in the oranges on the table and madder lake and vermilion in the skirt of the woman.

  • With everything going wrong, Celia descends into madness, starting an imaginary tea party. She attacks Miles Coombes who is forced to wrap her up in a tablecloth before going for help.
  • Her inspiration for this first came at an art foundation benefit when a glass of red wine was spilled on a tablecloth.
  • It serves as a coat, blanket, bedspread, tablecloth or cape. It also decorates walls and floors, as a tapestry or carpet. Another use is to put it on the horse before climbing to the saddle.
  • In Bernhard's 2006 Off-Broadway show "Everything Bad & Beautiful", she concludes by showing the final footage from this film: Cynthia Bailey writing "Fuck Sandra Bernhard" on a tablecloth in lipstick.
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