carpetless
adjEtymology From carpet + -less.
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Not carpeted.
- Near-synonym: rugless
- Presently a sudden silence fell upon the grumbling audience, and everybody's eyes sought a single point--the wide, empty, carpetless stage.1883, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Life on the Mississippi, Part 9:
2 more examples
- The little bare feet made no noise on the carpetless floor.1898, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Giant Scissors:
- His parlor was dingy and carpetless; one could smell distinctly there the vow of poverty.1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:
- Derived terms
- carpetlessness