Word Meanings - CARPETLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without a carpet.

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• CARPET
  packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 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
• CARPETBAG
  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
• CARPETING
  1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• CARPETLESS
  Without a carpet.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
• CARPETMONGER
  1. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets. 2. One fond of pleasure; a gallant. Shak.
• CARPETBAGGER
  An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War .
• CARPETWAY
  A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.
• AXMINSTER; AXMINSTER CARPET
  A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called
• WILTON CARPET
  A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England.