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单词 welsh carpet
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Welsh carpet
Welsh carpet n. Obsolete (a) a well-scrubbed floor; (b) a pattern stained on to a hard floor (rare).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > stained floor pattern
Welsh carpet1837
1837 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 June Her Welsh carpet, as she called the well scrubbed board floors, without a spot upon them,..proved her to be a notable housewife.
1854 Househ. Words 2 Sept. 53/1 This Welsh carpet is a pattern produced on the brick floor by staining the brick squares in figures with dockleaf juice.
1870 Phrenol. Jrnl. & Packard's Monthly July 52/1 He..said, ‘What kind of a carpet do you call this, Mrs. Ley—German, Scotch, or English?’ ‘Oh,’ she replied, ‘that's a Welsh carpet.’
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