carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹpət/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pɪt
Forms: form: carpets
Etymology: From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita or Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).
Senses: examples: text: A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
text: The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms. Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity would probably be considered anti-social in wayside waiting rooms.
ref: 1946 March and April, “State Railway Dreams”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:
text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
examples: text: the grassy carpet of this plain
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.
ref: 2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 47:
glosses: Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
glosses: Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae
examples: text: Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A wrought cover for tables.
glosses: A woman's pubic hair.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from carpet (noun)
word: altar carpet
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word: becarpet
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word: boom carpet
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word: brush something under the carpet
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word: Brussels carpet
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word: call on the carpet
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word: call onto the carpet
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word: carpetable
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word: carpetbag
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word: carpet-bag
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word: carpet bagger
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word: carpetball
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word: carpet beater
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word: carpet-beater
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word: carpet bedding
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taxonomic: Dermestidae spp.
word: carpet beetle
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word: carpet bomb
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word: carpet-bomb
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word: carpet bombing
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word: carpet bowling
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word: carpet bowls
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word: carpet bugle
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word: carpet burn
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word: carpet dance
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word: carpet fitter
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taxonomic: Axonopus spp.
word: carpet grass
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word: carpeting
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word: carpet joint
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word: carpet kisser
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word: carpet knife
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word: carpet knight
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word: carpetlayer
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word: carpetless
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word: carpetlike
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word: carpetmaker
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word: carpetmaking
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word: carpetmonger
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word: carpet moth
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word: carpet muncher
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word: carpet munching
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taxonomic: Morelia spilota
word: carpet python
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word: carpet rod
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word: carpet shark
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word: carpetshark
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taxonomic: Venerupis spp.
word: carpet shell
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word: carpet slipper
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taxonomic: Morelia spilota
word: carpet snake
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word: carpet sweeper
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word: carpetsweeper
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taxonomic: Echis spp.
word: carpet viper
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word: carpetward
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word: carpetwards
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word: carpet washer
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word: carpetway
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word: carpet weed
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word: carpetweed
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word: carpetwork
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word: crazy carpet
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word: deep pile carpet
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word: Dutch carpet
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word: fitted carpet
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word: flying carpet
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word: goldencarpet
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taxonomic: Gilmania luteola
word: golden carpet
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taxonomic: Zoysia matrella
word: Japanese carpet
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word: magic carpet
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taxonomic: Trifolium monanthum
word: mountain carpet clover
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word: nanocarpet
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word: on the carpet
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word: Oriental carpet
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word: oriental carpet
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word: red carpet
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word: red-carpet
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word: roll out the red carpet
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taxonomic: Perizoma flavofasciata
word: sandy carpet
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word: satin carpet
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taxonomic: Ligdia adustata
word: scorched carpet
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word: Sierpinski carpet
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taxonomic: Ceanothus prostratus
word: squaw carpet
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word: sweep something under the carpet
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word: the carpet matches the drapes
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word: tragic carpet
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word: Turkey carpet
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word: Turkish carpet
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word: under the carpet
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word: upon the carpet
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word: walking carpet
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word: wood carpet