Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a carpet.
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- adjective Not
carpeted
Etymologies
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Examples
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The floors at Biarritz were red-tile, and her friend Cecil Beaton noted that they were "carpetless but spotlessly clean."
Archive 2008-02-01 Linda 2008
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The floors at Biarritz were red-tile, and her friend Cecil Beaton noted that they were "carpetless but spotlessly clean."
Cleanliness: A Matter of Beauty Linda 2008
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The common stairs of this mansion were bare and carpetless; but a curious visitor who had to climb his way to the top, might have observed that there were not wanting indications of the progressive poverty of the inmates, although their rooms were shut.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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Chilled as by an icy mantle that fell on our shoulders, we went through ante-rooms, drawing-rooms opening one out of the other, with carpetless parquet floors, and furnished with such splendid antiquities as from thence would find their way to the curiosity dealers.
Honorine 2007
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Chilled as by an icy mantle that fell on our shoulders, we went through ante-rooms, drawing-rooms opening one out of the other, with carpetless parquet floors, and furnished with such splendid antiquities as from thence would find their way to the curiosity dealers.
Honorine 2007
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The boarded floor was carpetless; the three or four stiff-backed, green - painted chairs seemed once to have furnished the kitchen of some farm-house; a desk of strong, solid formation, the table aforesaid, and some framed sheets on the stone-coloured walls, bearing plans for building, for gardening, designs of machinery, etc., completed the furniture of the place.
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The level sunrays flooded the rooms, showing up hitherto unnoticed smudges and scratches on the wall-papers; showing the prints of hundreds of dusty feet on the carpetless floors.
Australia Felix 2003
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Then to ease the discomfort caused by the carpetless concrete floor, he wore cushioned slippers.
DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001
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Then to ease the discomfort caused by the carpetless concrete floor, he wore cushioned slippers.
DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001
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Then to ease the discomfort caused by the carpetless concrete floor, he wore cushioned slippers.
DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001
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