velvet carpet

American  

noun

1. a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.

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Example Sentences

“I didn’t understand one effing thing that was said in the last 14 minutes,” actor Rainn Wilson said afterward at the microphone, the Hudson River like a velvet carpet behind him.

From Washington Post

The flaps of the tent’s entrance curve to both sides, revealing a yawning, pitch-black hole into which a velvet carpet extends.

From Literature

The citizens of London sent fifty million pounds, to keep the menagerie up, and the ladies of Britain constructed a pair of black velvet carpet slippers with the Waifs initials embroidered in gold.

From Literature

The red velvet carpet in the Casa San Giovanni was littered with torn petals.

From The New Yorker

A minute later a stream of saw-dust oozed out from the beast's body, covering the piles of be-ribboned lace and linen, scattered all over the velvet carpet.

From Project Gutenberg