Brussels carpet
English
Noun
Brussels carpet (plural Brussels carpets)
- 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 2013, p. 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 […].
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 19:
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