ˈTurkey ˈcarpet
[f. Turkey1 + carpet.]
A carpet manufactured in or imported from Turkey, or of a style in imitation of this; made in one piece of richly-coloured wools, without any imitative pattern, on a foundation of flax, hemp, or other material, and having a deep pile, cut so as to resemble velvet.
| 1546 Acts Privy Council 9 Oct. (1890) I. 537, vij chestes of Spanisshe velvettes, one fardell of Turkey carpettes. 1552 in J. O. Payne St. Paul's Cathedr. time Edw. VI (1893) 24 One Turkeye carpett for the Communyon table. 1688 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 219 A long Turkey Carpet in the Meeting roome. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 112 ¶10 She spilt her coffee on a Turkey carpet. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. xviii. 305 The prairies..were gaily painted with innumerable flowers, exhibiting the motley confusion of colours of a Turkey carpet. 1894 Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 3 The thick Turkey carpet. |
Hence Turkey-ˈcarpeted a., furnished with a Turkey carpet; Turkey carpeting, the material of Turkey carpets.
| 1831 M. Edgeworth Let. 29 Mar. (1971) 505 The library at Eton College is the most comfortable I ever was in—turkey carpetted. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 181/1 Fustians are..a kind of cotton velvet, as Turkey carpeting is a woollen velvet. 1849 Dickens Dav. Copp. xx, A snug private apartment, red-curtained and Turkey-carpeted. |