[f. TURKEY1 + CARPET.] A carpet manufactured in or imported from Turkey, or of a style in imitation of this; made in one piece of richly-colored wools, without any imitative pattern, on a foundation of flax, hemp, or other material, and having a deep pile, cut so as to resemble velvet.
1546. Acts Privy Council, 9 Oct. (1890), I. 537. vij chestes of Spanisshe velvettes, one fardell of Turkey carpettes.
1552. in J. O. Payne, St. Paul’s Cathedr. time Edw. VI. (1893), 24. One Turkeye carpett for the Communyon table.
1688. in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 219. A long Turkey Carpet in the Meeting roome.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 112, ¶ 10. She spilt her coffee on a Turkey carpet.
1836. W. Irving, Astoria, I. xviii. 190. The prairies … were gayly painted with innumerable flowers, exhibiting the motley confusion of colors of a Turkey carpet.
1892. Fenn, Secret Quest, 6. The thick Turkey carpet.
Hence Turkey-carpeted a., furnished with a Turkey carpet; Turkey carpeting, the material of Turkey carpets.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVII. 181/1. Fustians are … a kind of cotton velvet, as Turkey carpeting is a woollen velvet.
1849. Dickens, Dav. Copp., xx. A snug private apartment, red-curtained and Turkey-carpeted.
