Turkey carpet

noun

A carpet made by traditional methods in Turkey (or in a similar style), typically having bold colours and a thick wool pile; a Turkish carpet.

First used 16th c.

Meanings

nounTurkey carpet (plural Turkey carpets)

plural Turkey carpets

  1. A carpet made by traditional methods in Turkey (or in a similar style), typically having bold colours and a thick wool pile; a Turkish carpet.First known use 16th c.

    Beyond them lay the length of the Turkey carpet darkening away under the long table.

    1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 201
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    Beaumont, the editor, too--I suppose he is lying upon the blue-and-red Turkey carpet which adorned his sanctum.

    1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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