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Red carpet

noun

A strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on.

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"Red carpet" Quotes from Famous Books

... objects are visible to us because of the light diffusely reflected from them. A white object, such as a sheet of paper, a whitewashed fence, or a table cloth, absorbs little of the light which falls upon it, but reflects nearly all, thus producing the sensation of white. A red carpet absorbs the light rays incident upon it except the red rays, and these ...

— General Science • Bertha M. Clark

... sight of a woman, but she is as safe with them as with a cowboy or a Quaker. The guests were led down into a basement, an eighteen foot room, six feet high. The sailors had covered the floor and papered the walls with red carpet. A tiny oil stove added to the warmth of that blazing carpet. More than twenty officers and doctors crowded into the room, and took seats at the table, lighted by two lamps. There were a dozen plates ...

— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

Words linked to "Red carpet" : rug, carpet, uncommon, carpeting, red-carpet