Wiktionary
n. (context US English) a rug that only covers part of the floor of a room; a carpet
Usage examples of "area rug".
Stephanie jumped off the couch and pushed the sofa off the area rug.
I had laid down everything from handmade Navajo rugs to a black area rug with Elvis's face, fully two feet across, dominating the piece.
As in the rooms below, the area rug was an oversized Oriental carpet, probably seventeen feet by twenty-three.
A large area rug showed a densely woven grid of black lines on gray.
Nevertheless, as he crouched down over the heavy area rug, Gordon thought he might have found something the earlier looters had missed.
A Scandinavian area rug, its abstract pattern a whirl of blue and green, covered the central portion of the limed oak floor.
On the floor was an exquisitely patterned Edward Fields area rug, and in a corner was a comfortable damask-covered contour couch.
So far, I'd only thrown down an area rug for it, but eventually I planned to finish it into a separate room for her.
Even with the addition of an area rug, the room smelled like motor oil and old car parts.
She squatted down to examine a few drops of blood on the edge of an area rug.
Eve stepped on to a small area rug with the face of a smiling sun.
There were two chairs in the same pattern as the sofa, and the green area rug showed not a speck of dust or lint.