Word Meanings - BRUSSELS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

• Carpeting
  of Carpet
• Carpetbag
  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
• Carpetbagger
  An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
• Carpetless
  Without a carpet.
• Carpetmonger
  One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
• Carpetway
  A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.

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