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uncarpeted

American  
[uhn-kahr-pit-id] / ʌnˈkɑr pɪt ɪd /

adjective

  1. (of a floor) not covered with carpet or rugs; bare.


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Stomp, stomp up the stairs go the students; slap, slap go their mats onto the uncarpeted floor.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

She lives in a two-bedroom house on the outskirts of Manchester with her 12-year-old son, Harry, and worries that, with its high ceilings and uncarpeted floors, it is too cold.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

The first person walks out of this preview performance about 30 minutes in; over the next hour around another 10 leave, the clomping of their shoes on an uncarpeted floor making them impossible to ignore.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2019

Since an uncarpeted sole is an invitation to the transmission of noise and vibration from the engineroom below, I was surprised to find the sound level so low during our performance tests.

From Time Magazine Archive

She leads him up five flights of uncarpeted stairs that creak noisily beneath their combined weight.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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