STAIR-CARPET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stair-carpet mean? 

• STAIR-CARPET (noun)
  The noun STAIR-CARPET has 1 sense:

1. a strip of carpet for laying on stairs

  Familiarity information: STAIR-CARPET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAIR-CARPET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strip of carpet for laying on stairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stair-carpet" is a kind of...):

carpet; carpeting; rug (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))

 Context examples 

This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)