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  • noun Plural form of rug.

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Examples

  • No rollicking boys there, all big, full-grown men with beards and whiskers, with a dozen gun cases, stretcher camp beds, and some scarlet velvet rugs -- actually _rugs_.

    The Shagganappi E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • People sat on sheepskin rugs, listening to the New Seekers and admiring the pampas grass in their front garden: here was sophistication previous generations could only dream of.

    Alexis Petridis: Like lambs to the slaughter Alexis Petridis 2010

  • The great thing about area rugs is that you can take it with you when you move and usually, you can always find a new area to lay it down when you do move.

    Bedroom Decorating Ideas 2009

  • While this may be true, it's likely that the first "hidden" war rugs from the early 1980s were meant for fellow Afghanis, according to Hanifa Tokhi, an Afghan immigrant who fled Kabul after the Soviet invasion and now lives in northern California.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The Zapotec weaving village, famed for its highly decorative, hand-woven wool rugs, is about fifteen miles southeast of Oaxaca city off the Pan American Highway 190.

    Building a foundation to live in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca 2008

  • The Zapotec weaving village, famed for its highly decorative, hand-woven wool rugs, is about fifteen miles southeast of Oaxaca city off the Pan American Highway 190.

    Building a foundation to live in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca 2008

  • The Zapotec weaving village, famed for its highly decorative, hand-woven wool rugs, is about fifteen miles southeast of Oaxaca city off the Pan American Highway 190.

    Building a foundation to live in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca 2008

  • DIA line of rugs is awarded prestigious Red Dot 2008 prize in the Red Dot Museum in Essen.

    Felt Rugs by Michelle Mason 2008

  • DIA Wool RugsDIA line of rugs is awarded prestigious Red Dot 2008 prize in the Red Dot Museum in Essen.

    Felt Rugs by Michelle Mason 2008

  • Washing underwear with rugs is not recommended unless you are washing at hottest and adding chlorine bleach and washing soda and even then I will be uncomfortable.

    How to wash cloth « oneduasan 2006

  • Hemp has commonly been used as a material for carpets and sweaters — it’s the main material of Baja hoodies, those textured pullovers dubbed “drug rugs” and typically associated with stoners.

    Hemp is now legal. That’s huge for the CBD industry. Chavie Lieber 2018

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