HEARTHRUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hearthrug mean? 

• HEARTHRUG (noun)
  The noun HEARTHRUG has 1 sense:

1. a rug spread out in front of a fireplace

  Familiarity information: HEARTHRUG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARTHRUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rug spread out in front of a fireplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hearthrug" is a kind of...):

carpet; carpeting; rug (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))

 Context examples 

I had a good look at him now as he stood upon the hearthrug with my mother upon one side and my father on the other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So it proved; for in the morning I found my friend standing on the hearthrug with his back to the fire and a smile of complete satisfaction upon his face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These details only struck our attention afterwards, for our thoughts were entirely absorbed by the terrible object which lay upon the tigerskin hearthrug in front of the fire.

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

"I suspect that is a wise man," remarked Mr. March, with placid satisfaction, from the hearthrug, after the last guest had gone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My mother screamed, and down came my father’s pipe on to the hearthrug.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such was the stately presence who looked stonily at us from the centre of Dr. Huxtable’s hearthrug.

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