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carpetless en · ADJ

Etymology

From carpet + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not carpeted.
    • His parlor was dingy and carpetless; one could smell distinctly there the vow of poverty. 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:
    • Presently a sudden silence fell upon the grumbling audience, and everybody's eyes sought a single point--the wide, empty, carpetless stage. 1883, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Life on the Mississippi, Part 9:
    • Near-synonym: rugless
    • The little bare feet made no noise on the carpetless floor. 1898, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Giant Scissors:

Deriveds

carpetlessness

Synonyms

uncarpeted · rugless