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Axminster carpet

Axminster \Ax"min*ster\, n., or Axminster carpet \Axminster carpet\ .

  1. [More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.

  2. A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||

Usage examples of "axminster carpet".

Now a newly tessellated marble floor waited for an Axminster carpet, currently being woven especially.

The floor was covered by a gigantic Axminster carpet where golden suns, stars, serpents, and dragons ran riot on a pale blue ground.

When he eased his tongue into her mouth, she jumped, pushed away from him, backed up three fast steps, tripped over the hassock she'd kicked and landed on her bottom not on the soft Axminster carpet, but onto the oak floor.

He guarded the doors with a diligence that bordered upon madness, never quite having lived down the evening when an entire floor's worth of computer equipment upped and left, along with two potted palms and the managing director's Axminster carpet.