carpeting

[kahr-pi-ting]

noun

1. material for carpets.

2. carpets in general.

carpeting

/ ˈkɑːpɪtɪŋ /

noun

1. carpet material or carpets in general

Word History and Origins

Origin of carpeting¹

First recorded in 1750–60; carpet + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Now Britons are growing exasperated with a decorator whose tastes run to the intellectual equivalent of avocado-colored appliances and garish shag carpeting.

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Brettler removed the shag carpeting in the living area and bedroom and poured terrazzo floors to match the original floors throughout the house, many of which had to be repaired.

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Its lavish, privately funded $73-million Performing Arts Center is the showpiece, where only white wine is sold, lest a splash of red stain the carpeting.

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An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.

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The myriad small towns are brief interludes amid the dairy and poultry farms and lush carpeting of vegetables, fruit and nut trees that stretch to the hazy-brown horizon.

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