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UNCARPETED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uncarpeted mean?
• UNCARPETED (adjective)
The adjective UNCARPETED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNCARPETED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not carpeted
Context example:
bare uncarpeted floors
Antonym:
carpeted (covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination)
Context examples
Holmes led the way up the curving, uncarpeted stair.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I followed him to the top of a very lofty stair, and there, right under the slates, were a couple of empty, dusty little rooms, uncarpeted and uncurtained, into which he led me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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