Unscramble

l 1 i 1 n 1 o 1 l 1 e 1 u 1 m 3

8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a floor covering

originFrom Latin līnum (“flax”) + oleum (“oil”). Coined by English manufacturer and inventor Frederick Walton c. 1864 and used as a trade name but never registered as a trademark. It was the first product whose name was ruled to be genericized.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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