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Red carpet   /rɛd kˈɑrpət/   Listen
Red carpet

noun
1.
A strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on.






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"Red carpet" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps. On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which ...
— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

... had been opened by some unseen agency, disclosing a passage and flight of stairs covered by a red carpet, at the foot of which lay an old, tangled, brown-white dog full of fleas and sorrow. Unreasoning terror seized on Barbara; her body remained rigid, but her spirit began flying back across the Green Park, to the very hall of Valleys House. Then she saw coming towards ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet. ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... very pleasant rooms," Juliet admitted, with the air of one endeavouring to be polite. She sat upon a many-hued divan, and glanced from the blue-and-yellow wall-paper to the green velvet chairs, the dull-red carpet and the stiff "lace" curtains. "You get the afternoon sun, and the view opposite isn't bad. The vestibule seemed to be well kept, and I rang only three times ...
— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond

... office, with its red carpet and easy-chairs, stood in pleasant lamp-lit emptiness. The last time she had entered it, Darrow and Clemence Verney had been there, and she had sat behind the urn observing them. She paused a moment, struck now by a fault sound from beyond; then she slipped noiselessly ...
— Sanctuary • Edith Wharton



Words linked to "Red carpet" :   red-carpet, rug, uncommon, carpeting, carpet



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