carpet
noun
a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
carpetless
-
a word derived from
carpet.
Example Sentences
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Housing officers are surprised again by the amount of rent they are paying – about £750 a month, considerably more than the carpetless and ill-maintained property is worth.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2014
That meagerly furnished floor, with its “ill-lit, carpetless corridor,” reminds Krull of the terrors of the halls in the barracks he had hoped to escape in the grand hotel in Paris.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2014
Palla rescued him, and he went with her, a little wild-eyed, downstairs to the nearly empty and carpetless drawing-room, where a music box was playing and people were already dancing.
From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
To her the dirty paper, the carpetless floor, the miserable bed, the worm-eaten and scanty furniture, the aspect of extreme poverty which pervaded every thing, were so shocking, that she could hardly restrain her tears.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
He struck a match, he found a stump of candle, he made his way by means of this flickering light along the passage and up the carpetless stairs.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Algernon Blackwood
