Brussels carpet Hear it!

Brussels carpet definition

Brussels carpet

a patterned carpeting made of small loops of colored woolen yarn in a linen warp

Etymology: after Brussels, where it was made

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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