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Brussels carpet

noun

A carpet with a strong linen warp and a heavy pile of colored woolen yarns drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern.

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"Brussels carpet" Quotes from Famous Books

... was filled with worn and antiquated furniture. There was a ponderous old mahogany bureau, with the veneering cracked and peeled, and a bed to correspond. There was a shabby little writing-desk, whose let-down lid was lined with faded and blotted green baize. On the floor there was an old Brussels carpet, antique as to pattern, and wholly threadbare as to surface. The walls were covered with an old-time paper whose plaintive primitiveness ran in slender pink stripes alternating with narrow green vines. In one ...

— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... yours for twenty years, but you can never feel quite sure of them. You never know exactly what they are thinking of. You never feel easy in your mind as to the result of the next-door neighbor's laying down a Brussels carpet ...

— Evergreens - From a volume entitled "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" • Jerome K. Jerome

Words linked to "Brussels carpet" : carpeting, rug, carpet