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🧶 A large carpet 🧶 Woven in one piece
broadloom

broadloom

1 7.4
Carpets made in one wide piece to cover a whole floor without seams
  • adjective
  • /ˈbrɔːdˌlum/
  • Specialized
: de gran ancho
  • The hotel corridors are covered with a plush, red broadloom carpet.

Examples

  • The new office features stunning broadloom carpeting.

  • I prefer broadloom carpets for their seamless look.

  • They decided to install broadloom in the living room for a seamless look.

  • This store specializes in fitted broadloom as well as traditional area rugs.

  • The hotel corridors are covered with a plush, red broadloom carpet.

  • They decided to install broadloom in the living room for a seamless look.

  • I prefer broadloom carpets for their seamless installation.

Surface Forms

broadloom positive

Morphology

broadloom = broad + loom (transparent) = broad + loom

The adjectival sense describes carpets produced in a single wide piece on a broad loom; the relation to the components is direct and inferable.

Etymology

Broadloom comes from the parts broad ('wide') and loom ('weaving machine'). As an adjective it describes rugs woven in a single, wide piece so they fit wall to wall without seams, which is why we call fitted carpets 'broadloom'.