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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

... found my arm so much swollen, and myself altogether so ill, that I kept my bed. I need not mention that the same surgeon attended me. I took this opportunity of furnishing myself with a few necessaries and a carpet-bag; so I was no longer the ...

— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard

... the way of furniture beyond the most indispensable articles: a table, two chairs, and a few cups, saucers, and plates on a shelf; through the half-open door, he saw that the bed-room was equally plain. A fire was burning, and a kettle on it; and in front, on a little square piece of carpet, lay Ida's inseparable friend, Grim. Grim had lifted his head at Waymark's entrance, and, with gathering curiosity in his eyes, slowly stood up; then stretched himself, and, looking first at one, then at ...

— The Unclassed • George Gissing

... As soon as the evening comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble at the bowling-green, where, in the open air, those who choose, dance upon a turf more soft and smooth than the finest carpet in the world, ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... little child, making up the fine folks' world out of the rags she got together out of the dustbins. 'What's that?' Johnsen he said once—he was a little less full than usual. 'Oh, that's the best room with the carpet on the floor, and there by the stove is your room, father. But you mustn't spit on the floor, because ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... answer in the affirmative. His introduction into the place, even though his curiosity has been small, was a disappointment. The room had been nicely furnished once, but the carpet and the furniture showed signs of much wear, and the pictures of which Norris had spoken proved to be several of a remarkably "loud" sort, but of no real artistic value ...

— Richard Dare's Venture • Edward Stratemeyer

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