Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rug laid on a floor in front of a fireplace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rug used or made to be used in front of a fireplace as a protection for the floor or for a carpet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a rug spread out in front of a fireplace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rug placed in front of afireplace , on thehearth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rug spread out in front of a fireplace
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Examples
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The hearthrug was a wonderful old Persian thing, all faint greens and pinks.
Greenmantle 2005
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The hearthrug was a wonderful old Persian thing, all faint greens and pinks.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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She shook the mats out at the front-door and put them straight; the hearthrug was a rabbit-skin.
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan Beatrix Potter 1904
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I sat down on the hearthrug, quietly, so as not to wake him.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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If a mere half century can transform innocent flirtation into an orgy on a hearthrug, imagine what two thousand years can do.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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And out towards the coal-scuttle was a region near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain country of rudely piled bricks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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And out towards the coal-scuttle was a region near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain country of rudely piled bricks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper.
H G Wells, The New Machiavelli (1911) Adam Roberts 2010
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They fled past the big black cat on the hearthrug and went up to their play-room.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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If a mere half century can transform innocent flirtation into an orgy on a hearthrug, imagine what two thousand years can do.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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If a mere half century can transform innocent flirtation into an orgy on a hearthrug, imagine what two thousand years can do.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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