moquette
(mɒˈkɛt)
Also 8 quasi-It. mocketto.
[a. F. moquette; according to Hatz.-Darm. a corruption of mocade mockado.]
A material composed of wool and hemp or linen, chiefly used for carpeting. Also moquette carpet.
| 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. II. 401 In it are also made very beautiful baragons, together with mockettoes, a kind of carpets. 1852–4 Tomlinson's Cycl. Usef. Arts (1866) II. 867 The Wilton carpet, called Moquette by the French, differs from the Brussels in the form of the wire [etc.]. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Moquette, a tapestry Brussels carpet of a fine quality; a species of Wilton carpet. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 130/1 Moquette or Wilton Carpets are woven in the same manner as Brussels carpets. 1894 J. Pendleton Our Railways I. 443 Its saloons..upholstered in moquette. |