[
US
/ˈkɑɹpət/
]
NOUN
- floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
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a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet
the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet
a carpet of flowers
VERB
-
cover completely, as if with a carpet
flowers carpeted the meadows -
cover with a carpet
carpet the floors of the house - form a carpet-like cover (over)
How To Use carpet In A Sentence
- Women engage in food preparation, child rearing, carpet weaving, and other tasks within the compound, while men take care of the animals and do the physically demanding tasks.
- Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA. Your Right Hand Thief
- There wasn't a blank spot anywhere, beautiful carpets covered most of the floor and there were paintings and animal furs on the walls.
- The wall paper and carpets are mostly green, coeval with the gasalier and the Venetian blinds. The Doctor's Dilemma
- In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.
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- What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
- In September, return visitors to an Edinburgh guesthouse said it was time to ‘rethink the three-star rating’, complaining that the linens were ‘soiled’ and the carpet was littered with ‘crumbs and dustballs’.
- The grass looked like an old worn carpet, faded and ragged; the horizon was pressing against the cliff.
- Inside reminded her of a hotel; maroon carpet, cream walls and bellboys in black and grey suits.