CARPETED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpeted mean? 

• CARPETED (adjective)
  The adjective CARPETED has 1 sense:

1. covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: CARPETED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPETED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination

Context example:

a flower-carpeted hillside

Antonym:

uncarpeted (not carpeted)

 Context examples 

A small page admitted us, and we began at once to ascend the broad, well-carpeted stair.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was approached by four steps carpeted with the same material, while all round were scattered rich cushions, oriental mats and costly rugs of fur.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we ran off to get our leeward position of the last lee boat, we found the ocean fairly carpeted with sleeping seals.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a green spot, on a hill, carpeted with soft turf.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He walked as delicately as though all the snow were carpeted with porcupine quills, erect and ready to pierce the soft pads of his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The golden secretary darted through the room like a meteor with a dashing French-woman who carpeted the floor with her pink satin train.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window curtains, showing papered walls and a carpeted floor, so unlike the bare planks and stained plaster of Lowood, that my spirits rose at the view.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Having thus arranged my dwelling and carpeted it with clean straw, I retired, for I saw the figure of a man at a distance, and I remembered too well my treatment the night before to trust myself in his power.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The walls were papered, the floor was carpeted; the windows were neither less perfect nor more dim than those of the drawing-room below; the furniture, though not of the latest fashion, was handsome and comfortable, and the air of the room altogether far from uncheerful.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)