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hearthrug en · NOUN

Etymology

From hearth + rug.

Meanings

1. A rug placed in front of a fireplace, on the hearth.
   • The clock in the Warden’s drawing-room had just struck eight, and already the ducal feet were beautiful on the white bearskin hearthrug. 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:
   • Penelope rose from the hearthrug and threw herself on to the Chesterfield. 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Confidante”, in Encounters, page 53:
   • "Just as I reached Amen, when the creature should have been slinking away abashed, the big bearskin hearthrug stood up on end and simply enveloped me." 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

Forms

Translations (2)

nl haardkleed (rug in front of a fireplace) · fr tapis du foyer (rug in front of a fireplace)