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CARPETED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination
Example:
a flower-carpeted hillside
Classified under:
Antonym:
uncarpeted (not carpeted)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb carpet
Context examples:
It was not in the coffee-room that I found Steerforth expecting me, but in a snug private apartment, red-curtained and Turkey-carpeted, where the fire burnt bright, and a fine hot breakfast was set forth on a table covered with a clean cloth; and a cheerful miniature of the room, the fire, the breakfast, Steerforth, and all, was shining in the little round mirror over the sideboard.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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