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  • adjective covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination. Opposite of uncarpeted.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.

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  • adjective covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination

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Examples

  • Hard working reps at the bottom and non entities in carpeted offices at the top.

    Magical Mystery Tour « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • The illegal bouts, in carpeted 16-by-16-foot pits surrounded by four-foot walls, are staged in hidden venues, usually with no more than a few dozen spectators allowed.

    mjh's blog — 2007 — August 2007

  • His office as Secretary was the only one in the Department that had carpet, which gave a very literal ring to officers 'dread of being "carpeted" or, as they used to say, "summoned to the carpet".

    Memorial service for the late Sir Arthur Tange - Speech - Minister for Foreign Affairs 2001

  • One group finds their way to the Angel Room, a small carpeted space in the Parish Hall lined with bags of canned food that have been collected at Mass over the past few weeks.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • The sanctuary is a low-lit carpeted hall filled with nine long rows of padded, auditorium-style seats clustered around a raised platform called the bimah.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Downstairs, the line to get an autograph and photo with Snooki stretched a tenth of a mile at least along the convention hall's carpeted concrete.

    Snooki at the Washington Auto Show! (Um, why?) Crowds line up for the "Jersey Shore" star (video) The Reliable Source 2011

  • The insides of the vans are hollowed out and fitted with small, carpeted seats.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Convinced he was teasing me, I followed him through a set of double doors and down a long, carpeted hall that looked vaguely familiar.

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • Part of the messaging that night involved the use of children, several of whom sat on the carpeted hotel riser at Harper's feet while he spoke.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • The room looked just as Maggie had expected—a big, bare, carpeted square with windows on one side covered by vertical blinds.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

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