carpetmonger
English
Etymology
Noun
carpetmonger (plural carpetmongers)
- One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
- (obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
Related terms
- monger and its derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carpetmonger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)