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
Gracious me, child," she cried, when she saw the carpetless floor in the drawing-room, "I did not know that it was as bad as this.
From Anxious Audrey by Mabel Quiller-Couch
It occurred to Joan as she followed her guide up flights of carpetless stone stairs that her new abode resembled a prison more than anything else.
From To Love by Margaret Peterson
There’s precious little joy in life that I can see,” Lawless replied, and rose, scraping his chair noisily upon the carpetless floor.
From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young
