2. Verb. (third-person singular of carpet) ¹
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Definition of Carpets
1. carpet [v] - See also: carpet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpets
Literary usage of Carpets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"ACCORDING to the best authorities, the manufacture and use of carpets originated
in tlie East. It was but natural that this should ho so. ..."
2. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"No carpets were made here, except " rag carpets," the striped combination of rags
and list which the Knickerbocker housewives wove at home, and which are ..."
3. A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at by Catharine Esther Beecher (1843)
"Curtains should be darker than the walls; and, if the walls and carpets ...
In selecting carpets, for rooms much used, it is poor economy to buy cheap ones. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The tradu in real Persian carpets was formerly limited, owing to their small
size, aa they were seldom larger than hearth-rugs, long and narrow in shape ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Although the name " tapestry " is used, the texture of these wares has but a
remote likeness to that of hand-made tapestry hangings and carpets such as ..."
6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"carpets and rugs may be classified into those made of cotton and those made of wool.
... The woollen or pile carpets, known as kalin and kalic/ia, ..."
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