becarpet
verbEtymology From be- + carpet.
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Poetic To cover like a carpet.
- And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]1918, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 137, page 665:
- The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […]1933, Leonard Barnes, Youth at Arms, page 9: