Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Woven on a wide loom.
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- noun A
wide loom - noun A
carpet woven on a wide loom - adjective
woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of rugs or carpets) woven full width
- noun a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
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Examples
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And crisp new Sisal-like look in wool broadloom is $19.84 sq. yd.
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I began laying out all the prints, one at a time, until every piece of furniture, every square inch of musty broadloom, and every cracked bathroom tile were covered with Sammy and Peter's brilliant career.
Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010
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I was afraid to walk across the green shag broadloom because I thought there was a chance it would transmogrify into the Indian Ocean and drown me while my legs were simultaneously being consumed by a hammerhead shark.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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I was afraid to walk across the green shag broadloom because I thought there was a chance it would transmogrify into the Indian Ocean and drown me while my legs were simultaneously being consumed by a hammerhead shark.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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How many of the 120 million in that wall-to-wall crustacean broadloom would have flounced off in a huff?
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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How many of the 120 million in that wall-to-wall crustacean broadloom would have flounced off in a huff?
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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Desso has been manufacturing and marketing broadloom carpet and carpet tiles for commercial and residential use, as well as artificial turf for sports applications, for almost 80 years.
Archive 2008-09-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Desso has been manufacturing and marketing broadloom carpet and carpet tiles for commercial and residential use, as well as artificial turf for sports applications, for almost 80 years.
Desso To Sponsor Interior Design Award Category At Prestigious Emirates Glass LEAF Architectural Awards 2008 Thatsnews 2008
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How many of the 120 million in that wall-to-wall crustacean broadloom would have flounced off in a huff?
Unfair Dinkum 2006
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Another job involved taking an old shag carpet out of one of the break-out rooms on the second floor of the Center and replacing it with a rather more practical broadloom remnant that had to be cut and fitted into place.
Archive 2007-09-01 Will 2007
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