Carpet
Carpet (kar"pet) , noun
[Old French carpite rug, soft of cloth, French carpette coarse packing cloth, rug (compare Italian carpita rug, blanket), Late Latin carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, from Latin carpere to pluck, to card (wool); compare Greek karpo`s fruit, English Harvest.]
1.
A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.
Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.
2.
A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
The grassy carpet of this plain.
Collocations (7)
Carpet beetle or Carpet bug (Zoology) , a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophularia), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called buffalo bug.
Carpet knight , (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. — Shakespeare (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.
Carpet moth (Zoology) , the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several kinds. Some are the larva of species of Tinea (as Tinea tapetzella); others of beetles, esp. Anthrenus.
Carpet sweeper , an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets.
To be on the carpet , to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; -- an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover.
Brussels carpet , See under Brussels.
Carpet , transitive verb
To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
Carpeted temples in fashionable squares.