The word "tablecloths" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a cloth that is intended to be used as a covering for a table, typically for decorative or protective purposes. For example, "We used a beautiful lace tablecloth to cover the dining table for the dinner party."
( Nob Hill offers rich pickings: the outrageous Tonga Room (it rains indoors!) in classic grand dame hotel, The Fairmont; and Big 4 in the more boutiquey Scarlet Huntington across the road, all starched tablecloths, green leather booths and grand piano.
My equivalent of the Lingfield Mandarin was a slightly plusher Chinese restaurant in Putney, with a swirly carpet and thick white tablecloths.
Nobody's hidebound by tradition, and restaurants such as Saison and Benu, both newly-blessed (or cursed) with the full three Michelin stars as of this October, are as likely to chuck out the tablecloths as they are to marry Asian flavours to intensive French techniques.
The artist had a phobia about throwing things out, so she had accumulated chests full of clothes—hers, her husband's and her sons' (she had three, two survive)—as well as old tablecloths and other linens.
As Lou DuBose and Jan Reid recounted in their biography of him: [Billy Clayton, the former Speaker of the Texas House] organized a morale builder called Speaker's Night at the Broken Spoke, an old beery dance hall with low ceilings, red tablecloths, country-western music, and chicken-fried steak.
They inspire pity and disbelief, just as tales of disease and disorder in Africa have long done in the rich world.Sitting on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal's capital, the three students sip cappuccinos and look out over a paved road shaded by palm trees where restaurants with white tablecloths serve green-spotted crabs.
The tycoons, the menu, the subtly glittering tablecloths, the lights, sound-system and Sphinx are all, in his eyes, subordinate to one thing: the flowers.
The goods produced are wool felt, in rolls and sheets; hats, both fur and wool; and woven felts, ranging from thin billiard tablecloths to heavy industrial fabrics used for dewatering in the manufacture of paper.
Some of Shandong's better-known handicraft goods are embroidered tablecloths from Yantai and Linzi, straw braids for hat weaving from Pingdu (east of Weifang), poplins, pottery, and ceramics.
There is nothing here to offend, but for the fact that there is nothing here to offend; tablecloths are creaseless, bud roses perfect, walls lacquered.
Dark wood, tick; waitresses in dirndls, tick; patterned tablecloths, check.
