carpet

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

   • 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. 2

   Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

   • the grassy carpet of this plain
   • 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.
3. 3

   Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

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   1. 4

      A wrought cover for tables.

      • Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.
   2. 5

      A woman's pubic hair.

   3. 6

      To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

      • After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
      • The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.
   4. 7

      To substantially cover something, as a carpet does

      To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

      • Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
      • Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
   5. 8

      To reprimand.

      • Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.

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