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Definition of Flying carpet
1. Noun. (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to go.
Category relationships: Folk Tale, Folktale
Geographical relationships: Asia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Carpet
Literary usage of Flying carpet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of King Solomon by Professor Solomon (2005)
"CHAPTER 53 flying carpet KING SOLOMON WAS RENOWNED FOR A UNIQUE MODE of transport:
his flying carpet, upon which he was wont to cruise the hills, ..."
2. Russian Folk-tales: (tr. from the Russian) by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasʹev (1916)
"This is a flying carpet: wherever you think it will take you. And this is a whip:
strike a maiden and say ' You have been a maiden, now become a mare,' and ..."
3. The Car that Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine, Walter Hale (1921)
"Oh, the automobile is the true flying carpet— swift, willing, always ready,
obeying at a touch. Only this morning we were at Beauchastel; a little while ago ..."
4. Prince Prigio by Andrew Lang (1889)
"... sat down on the flying carpet, and knocked at the door of the English ambassador
as the clocks were striking eight in Gluckstein. ..."
5. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"flying carpet, the invisible cap, the gold-giving ring, and the smiting club.
Chodzko. Slav fairy tales. Flying Dutchman. Scudder. Book of legends. ..."
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