Becarpet

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cover like a carpet. poetic, transitive

    "And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]"

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"And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]"

Etymology

From be- + carpet.

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