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carpet definition

car·pet (kär′pət)

noun

  1. a thick, heavy fabric of wool, cotton, or synthetic fibers for covering a floor, stairs, etc.: it is woven, usually with a pile, or felted
  2. a strip, or several joined strips, of such fabric
  3. anything like a carpet a carpet of snow

Etymology: ME < OFr carpite, carpet, kind of cloth < ML carpita, thick woolen cloth < pp. of L carpere, to card, pluck: see excerpt

transitive verb

to cover with or as with a carpet
carpet Idioms

on the carpet

  1. under consideration
  2. before someone in authority, in order to be reprimanded

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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