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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
broadloom
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I stay in, play Bach on the earphones and vacuum the broadloom.
▪ On the second flight, beige broadloom gives way to brown linoleum, bevelled mirror to beige gloss paint.
▪ This tissue-this industrial broadloom carpet of lies.
▪ To achieve a broadloom effect, lay the tiles with e arrows facing in the same direction.
Wiktionary
broadloom

a. woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams n. 1 A wide loom 2 A carpet woven on a wide loom

WordNet
broadloom
  1. adj. (of rugs or carpets) woven full width; "a broadloom rug"

  2. n. a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams

Usage examples of "broadloom".

The black turtleneck sweater Tony had worn to dinner last night was flung carelessly across the back of the small blue chair in the corner, one empty arm extended toward the worn blue broadloom, still sticky with long-ago-spilled apple juice.

Instead she watched it sway back and forth above the steel-blue broadloom, like the pendulum of an old grandfather clock, ticking off the moments of her sad, stupid existence.

Fingers of morning sunshine inched their way across the broadloomed floor and, watching them, Warren Trent could feel his heart pounding heavily-an effect of the anger which for several minutes had consumed him.

The floor was a good deal harder on his knees than the broadloom he was used to.

They rode the gleaming, silent elevator to the fifth floor, then turned down a birch-paneled corridor, their footsteps silenced in deep broadloom.

It was decorated in shades of beige, brown, and coral, a sweep of sectional settees offset by walnut end tables, their rich darkness in simple, striking contrast to the deep broadloom of pale beige.

He followed the manservant up the wide, curved stairway, then down a corridor, their footsteps silenced by deep broadloom.

Cindy inched her way across the clothes-strewn broadloom toward the huge cast-iron bed that sat against the far wall.

Faith shifted from one foot to the other, her toes disappearing into the soft pile of the beige broadloom.

I had a confused impression of beige broadloom, modern furniture, and drapes with bright splashes of color.

Wall-to-wall carpet covered the floor, and oriental rugs in turn covered most of the broadloom.

She'd bought this new Chrome Koran, "My War Is My War," sort of out of self-defense, but she hadn't even liked it that much herself, and the one time she'd put it on, when Carson was there, he'd looked at her like she'd shit on his broadloom or something.

A century's-worth of padlocked walk-in freezers, fifty vacuum cleaners charging themselves at a row of numbered stations, rolls of broadloom stacked like logs.