oriental carpet
oriental carpet noun: a handwoven carpet in one of various styles made in or associated with the Orient; an oriental rug.
Noun (1)
oriental carpet (plural oriental carpets)
- A handwoven carpet in one of various styles made in or associated with the Orient; an oriental rug.
- It must be emphasized at once that in the narrow sense one cannot identify an oriental carpet simply by its design. The classical method used by experts in the carpet trade is to study the weave.1989, P.R.J. Ford, The Oriental Carpet, →OCLC, page 10
Noun (2) capitalized: Oriental carpet
Oriental carpet (plural Oriental carpets)
- Alternative letter-case form of oriental carpet.
Forms of oriental carpet
| plural | oriental carpets |
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| plural | Oriental carpets |
Origin of oriental carpet
From oriental + carpet. Attested from the 19th century.
Questions about oriental carpet
- What does oriental carpet mean?
- Oriental carpet means a handwoven carpet in one of various styles made in or associated with the Orient; an oriental rug.
- What part of speech is oriental carpet?
- Oriental carpet is a noun.
- What is the plural of oriental carpet?
- The plural of oriental carpet is oriental carpets.
Words near oriental carpet in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: oriental carpet (page history and authors); Oriental carpet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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