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becarpet

verb

Etymology

From be- + carpet.

  1. derived from կարպետ — “carpet, rug”
  2. derived from carpita
  3. derived from carpita
  4. derived from carpite
  5. inherited from carpette
  6. prefixed as becarpet — “be + carpet”

Definitions

  1. To cover like a carpet.

    • 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; […]
    • The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA