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car·pet
I. \ˈkärpə̇t, ˈkȧp-, usu -ə̇d.+V\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English carpete, from Middle French carpite, from Old Italian carpita, from carpire to pluck, modification of Latin carpere — more at harvest
1. : a heavy woven or felted fabric usually made of wool: as
a. : a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and tacked to the floor — see oriental rug; compare rug
b. obsolete : a thick wrought fabric used for covering tables or beds; specifically : an altar covering
c. archaic : a luxurious floor covering found especially in boudoirs — now used only attributively to convey the notion of effeminacy
< a carpet poet >
— see carpet knight
2.
a. : a surface resembling or suggesting a carpet (as in smoothness or softness)
< the grassy carpet of the plain — Shakespeare >
b. : the surface of a cricket field
< a carpet drive >
3.
a. : a thin skin of boards laid as a wearing surface on a floor
b. chiefly Britain : a thin layer of resurfacing material (as asphalt) covering a previously paved roadway
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- on the carpet
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
1.
a. : to furnish with a carpet : spread with carpets
< the floors were carpeted — Al Spiers >
b. : to cover as if with a carpet
< flowers carpet the streets — Claudia Cassidy >
2. chiefly Britain : to take to task : reprimand
< if the chap's a casualty and anything happens, we might be carpeted — Richard Llewellyn > |