deep-piled

A deep-piled rug of intricate red and yellow designs covered the floor.

She scrambled up, stumbled toward the closest door over a deep-piled Aubusson.

Instantly all three were standing in line on the deep-piled rug of the Main, facing the four Tellurians.

Walking across a deep-piled rug whose configurations were mazelike but colorful, she approached the desk.

There was a soft-toned sofa and multipneumatic chairs and a deep-piled rug.

A huge fireplace dominated the southwestern end and a number of comfortable chairs and small tables were arranged on a deep-piled carpet.

The floor was covered by a rich, deep-piled form of carpet, its gold color matched by draperies of what might have been velvet but wasn't.

Yellowing bracken, fallen branches, deep-piled pine-needles, and here and there dead trees, were soon in flames.

The rest of them rode on down the slope, the hooves of their horses rustling the deep-piled carpet of golden leaves.

Also seen around town are the mock turtle leopard (near right), so-called for obvious reasons, and a new deep-piled French import that looks like jaguar (center).

Inside the tram was pure luxury with deep-piled rugs of emerald green and a pair of broad black velvet couches.

Ayla stood at the bottom on a floor that was covered with a soft, deep-piled fur of some kind waiting for her eyes to adjust, then looked around.

Then there came the barely audible creak from a floor-board - the villa didn't go in much for deep-piled carpeting - in the passageway outside.

The deep-piled quilts were new this autumn, more contraband brought back by Rovigo from Quileia where winters were so much harsher than here.

Around him were the symbols of his success, the stereo hi-fi built into the wall, the well-stocked bar, the deep-piled carpet and plush armchairs and sofas.

On the morning before the Festival, she woke to snow blowing into the cracks of the room where she slept, though she was warm in the deep-piled hay.

Cupboards of black iron with latches of silver lined the walls from ceiling to floor, and here, as in the outer chamber, was the like deep-piled velvet carpet.

This contemporary reinterpretation of the ambiance of a traditional grand hotel eschews gilt, velvet and deep-piled carpets, offering in their place subtly diverse and complementary details.

Hal had left the study, covered half the distance to the breakfast nook before she heard him, and the lady was surprised that he could move so quietly, despite the deep-piled carpeting.

A good example of the consequences of dissimilar floor materials can often be observed in grand hotels where guests slip when walking from plush deep-piled carpets to highly polished floors.

There, on the deep-piled carpet of the elegant apartment on rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré, she had been making love to a man incarcerated in the slums of Beirut.

The tunnel sections of line will need to cross above the Jubilee Line but pass below the Central and Circle lines, weaving round buried utilities and deep-piled foundations on its way.

The deep-piled rug, two Yakoubs long and three Yakoubs wide, woven in wondrous red and green and blue and black on lost Earth itself by a sultan's fifty castrated slaves.

The office in Yar Nadrak of Silk and Yarblek's far-flung commercial empire was in a loft over a cavernous warehouse filled with bales of furs and deep-piled Mallorean carpets.

It is one of the few lyrical episodes in the novel as "they saw the sea spread out before them, a gently heaving expanse of deep-piled velvet, supple and sleek as a creature of the wild."