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Carpet
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- 1 A fabric used as a complete floor covering. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) wordnet
- 3 Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"the grassy carpet of this plain"
- 4 a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet wordnet
- 5 Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae countable, uncountable
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- 6 A wrought cover for tables. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets."
- 7 A woman's pubic hair. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
- 1 To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
"After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring."
- 2 cover with a carpet wordnet
- 3 To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something. transitive
"Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema."
- 4 cover completely, as if with a carpet wordnet
- 5 To reprimand. UK
"Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs."
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- 6 form a carpet-like cover (over) wordnet
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).
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).
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