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Carpet   /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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"Carpet" Quotes from Famous Books



... water, and he was obliged to keep a servant. V.'s landlady stole an opera-glass, a frock-coat, and a great deal of money from him. Most foreigners are swindled in a hundred different ways; if they make a stain on the carpet, they must pay for a new one. Maria looks after me like a mother. Every morning she rubs me with the ointment the doctor has prescribed. When I have to have a bath, she takes me in her arms, without any false shame, and puts me in the water; then takes me up and puts me to ...
— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes
... figure, clad only in an undershirt, trousers and a pair of carpet slippers, laid down a pressing iron ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass
... required a little change to a milder climate" (it was snowing when I wrote, and the thermometer over the chimneypiece at 9 deg. Reaumur, with windows that wouldn't shut, and a marble floor without carpet)—"that the balmy air of Italy" (my teeth chattered as I set it down) "would soon restore her; and indeed already she seemed to feel the change." That she did, for she was crouching over a pan of charcoal ashes, with a railroad wrapper ...
— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General - Originally Published In Blackwood's Magazine - 1864 • Charles Lever
... their tents with us; not to speak of the copper kings of Montana. Why is it that these interesting men, after acquiring fortune and fame elsewhere, are not content to remain upon the scene of their early triumphs? Why is it that they immediately pack their carpet-bags, take the first through train to our gates, and startle the investing public by the manner in which they bull the price of New ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... ran the entire length of the house. A raised dais, whose faded carpet had half rotted away, occupied an alcove at one end; upon it four or five wooden stools were placed; one of these was overturned; on another a violin in its baggy green baize cover was lying. Straight high-backed chairs were pushed ...
— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various


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