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becarpet en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + carpet.

Meanings

1. (poetic, transitive) To cover like a carpet.
   • The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […] 1933, Leonard Barnes, Youth at Arms, page 9:
   • And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […] 1918, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 137, page 665:

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