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/kˈɑrpət/ Listen

noun

Carpet n.

1.

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. "Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets."

2.

A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain."

Carpet beetle or Carpet bug (Zool.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; also called buffalo bug.

Carpet knight.

(a)

A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person.

(b)

One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.

Carpet moth (Zool.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larvae of species of Tinea (as Tinea tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus.

Carpet snake (Zool.), an Australian snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond.

Carpet sweeper, an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets.

To be on the carpet, to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover.

Brussels carpet. See under Brussels.

verb

Carpet v. t. (past & past part. carpeted; pres. part. carpeting) To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. "Carpeted temples in fashionable squares."

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Etymology of 'Carpet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carpet" Quotes from Famous Books

... the jar of the door, "there is no need for Freddy to bear ye out in that. You have only to look at the carpet under the legs of your chair. It has gotten a tairgin', as if all the hosts of King Pharaoh had trampled over it down ...

— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett

... seemed to see nothing. She was much pleased with the room. It was rather like a monk's cell. The man's character and thoughts seemed to pervade it. No decoration of any kind broke the grey painted surface of the walls. A green carpet covered the floor. A black sofa, a table littered with papers, two big easy-chairs, a chest of drawers with an alarum clock by way of ornament, a very low bedstead with a coverlet flung over it—a red cloth with a black key border—all these things made ...

— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac

... paints, crucibles, bags, and boxes, were scattered on the floor and in every place; as if the young chemist, in order to analyze the mystery of creation, had endeavored first to reconstruct the primeval chaos. The tables, and especially the carpet, were already stained with large spots of various hues, which frequently proclaimed the agency of fire. An electrical machine, an air-pump, the galvanic trough, a solar microscope, and large glass jars were conspicuous amidst the mass of matter. ...

— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... is: "The evening of Wednesday, the 14th of Safar, 656 (20th February, 1258), the Khalif was put to death in the village of Wakf, with his eldest son and five eunuchs who had never quitted him." Later writers say that he was wrapt in a carpet and trodden ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... and from there on toward the point, had been an expanse of glistening white. Rawson remembered it plainly. So now, when he found it a place of flaming crimson, he stared in amazement. Across the full width of the valley a brilliant carpet had spread itself, a covering of flowers. A blossoming vine had sprung up in the few days since his arrival and had woven ...

— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin

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