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A thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery
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moquette
Word definitions for moquette in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moquette \Mo*quette"\, n. [F.] A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Moquette , derived from the French word for carpet , is a type of woven pile fabric in which cut or uncut threads form a short dense cut or loop pile. As well as giving it a distinctive velvet-like feel, the pile construction is particularly durable, and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A kind of fabric with a thick pile used for carpeting or to upholster seating etc. 2 An article covered in such material.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee. ▪ Its craftsman made upholstery is from the Allied classic range of sculptured moquette in a subtle blend ...
Usage examples of moquette.
I retained the best of the furniture from our Hampstead apartment, at that time the exemplar of restrained urban taste: Hille couch and armchairs in wood and moquette, Heals sideboard in sycamore, an original Ercol dining-room set, Luminator lamps from Arte Luce, Aubusson needlepoint rugs.
E fu Daryl che la fittò per tutti quegli anni a gente del cinema, facendo sì che fossero loro a saldare il conto della nuova piscina, della nuova moquette, del nuovo belvedere e dei dipinti, che la facevano somigliare a una vetrina di museo.
It had all the makings of the average Brentford front sitter: the moquette three-piece, the nylon carpet, the occasional table whose occasion was yet to come, the fitted bookshelves and the television set.
Such as: an exercise bike, a dressmaker's dummy with the face of Cliff Richard, a hundred pairs of shoes, her Piaggio (which I was looking forward to riding), two inflatable armchairs and, in his travelling basket, Adrian, a furious-looking black tom cat whose continual yowling only stopped when he was let out into the living room and went straight about attacking the moquette of my Hille couch with his claws.
Le stanze erano formate dalla disposizione dei mobili d'antiquariato su tipi diversi di moquette e sotto piccoli riflettori.
She had been put to sit on a beige moquette chair near an oil heater with the heat turned low and given a tumbler of warm milk.