A dust sheet is a cloth spread over furniture while work goes on. Throw a dust sheet over it, a paint-spotted dust sheet, take up the dust sheets.
Cotton ones stay put where plastic slides and spreads the paint about, which is why decorators keep the old kind. Americans call the same thing a drop cloth.
1noundust sheetA cloth spread over furniture while work goes on.
“Everything in the room was under a dust sheet for a fortnight.”
dust sheet is a cloth.
dustsheet comes from dust + sheet.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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