Brussels carpet

English

Noun

Brussels carpet (plural Brussels carpets)

1. A kind of carpet made of wool fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread.
   • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 19:

     There is a Brussels carpet; a table of brightly varnished, heavily grained yellow pine built by a long-dead local joiner; wallpaper with cowed brown flowers […].