hearthrug

plural hearthrugs

1. A rug placed in front of a fireplace, on the hearth.

   Penelope rose from the hearthrug and threw herself on to the Chesterfield.

   1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Confidante”, in Encounters, page 53

   2 more examples

   The clock in the Warden’s drawing-room had just struck eight, and already the ducal feet were beautiful on the white bearskin hearthrug.

   1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson

   "Just as I reached Amen, when the creature should have been slinking away abashed, the big bearskin hearthrug stood up on end and simply enveloped me."

   1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019