becarpet

present singular third person becarpets · participle present becarpeting · participle past becarpeted · past becarpeted

1. poetictransitiveTo cover like a carpet.

   The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […]

   1933, Leonard Barnes, Youth at Arms, page 9

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   And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]

   1918, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 137, page 665