Brussels carpet

English

Noun

Brussels carpet (plural Brussels carpets)

  1. A kind of carpet made of wool fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread.
    • 1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 19:
      There is a Brussels carpet; a table of brightly varnished, heavily grained yellow pine built by a long-dead local joiner; wallpaper with cowed brown flowers […].
  • body Brussels
  • tapestry Brussels

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