Kidderminstern.
/ˈkɪdəˌmɪnstə/, U.S. /ˈkɪdərˌmɪnstər/ 1. attributive. Of or pertaining to Kidderminster; spec. the distinctive name of a kind of carpet, originally manufactured there, in which the pattern is formed by the intersection of two cloths of different colours: also called two-ply and ingrain carpet.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > ingrain or Kidderminster
Kidderminster1670
damask carpet1874
Kidder1893
1670–1 Act 22 & 23 Chas. II c. 8 Preamble Abuses..in the makeing of Stuffes called Kidderminster Stuffes.
1685 H. More Some Cursory Reflexions upon Baxter 25 When the Writings of these excel those of R. B. as much as the richest Arras, the meanest Kedderminster-Stuff.
1832 Encycl. Brit. VI. 173/1 Double or Kidderminster carpeting is composed of two plies of cloth.
1832 Encycl. Brit. VI. 174/1 Two-ply Kidderminster Carpet Loom.
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 314/1 Kidderminster or Scotch carpets, or, as the Americans more descriptively term them, ingrain carpets, are wholly of worsted or woollen.
2. absol. = Kidderminster carpet or carpeting. Also attributive.
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1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 314/2 In Kidderminsters the shoot forms by far the greatest portion of what is visible.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 263 Figured Venetian carpets are woven in the two-ply Kidderminster looms.
1892 L. T. Meade Medicine Lady I. viii. 123 A carpet made of faded Kidderminster covered the floor.
Derivatives
ˈKidderminstered adj. carpeted with a Kidderminster.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with a carpet
Turkey-carpeted1831
carpeted1849
Kidderminstered1852
wall-to-wall1953
close-carpeted1958
1852 M. W. Savage Reuben Medlicott iii. i The tradesman's contracted and Kidderminstered parlour.
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