carpetmonger

English

A carpetmonger.

Etymology

From carpet +‎ monger.

Noun

carpetmonger (plural carpetmongers)

1. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
2. (obsolete) 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]:

     [...] Leander the good swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse [...]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Translations

one who deals in carpets

• Ottoman Turkish: خالیجی (halıcı)
• Turkish: halıcı (tr)