Meanings
proper noun
- A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY2998).
nounAxminster (plural Axminsters)
plural Axminsters
- A carpet made in Axminster imitating the Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile.
A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016
Origin
- Old EnglishAcsan mynster
- EnglishAxminster
From Old English Acsan mynster, equivalent to the River Axe + minster.
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