Tables and beds covered with copes instead of
carpets and coverlets. --T. Fuller.
2. A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
``The grassy carpet of this plain.'' --Shak.
{Carpet beetle} or {Carpet bug} (Zo["o]l.), a small beetle
({Anthrenus scrophulari[ae]}), which, in the larval state,
does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; --
also called {buffalo bug}.
{Carpet knight}.
(a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and
has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of
the drawing room; an effeminate person. --Shak.
(b) One made a knight, for some other than military
distinction or service.
{Carpet moth} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an insect which feeds
on carpets and other woolen goods. There are several
kinds. Some are the larv[ae] of species of {Tinea} (as {T.
tapetzella}); others of beetles, esp. {Anthrenus}.
{Carpet snake} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian snake. See {Diamond
snake}, under {Diamond}.
{Carpet sweeper}, an apparatus or device for sweeping
carpets.
{To be on the carpet}, to be under consideration; to be the
subject of deliberation; to be in sight; -- an expression
derived from the use of carpets as table cover.
{Brussels carpet}. See under {Brussels}.
Carpeted temples in fashionable squares. --E. Everett.