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/rɛd kˈɑrpət/ Listen

Red carpet

noun

A strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on.

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"Red carpet" Quotes from Famous Books

... some of the feeling of having been in contact with a personality of the most colossal significance as we went down the red carpet of the broad white marble stairs. With one foot on the lowest step, the figure of a perfectly clothed, perfectly groomed man was standing looking upward at our descent. I had thought so little of him that the sight of the Duc de Mersch's face hardly suggested any train of emotions. ...

— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad

... day in July—for everybody agreed that not even a marriage should be allowed to interfere with the Scottish festival of St. Grouse—that same shining Mercury with the tonneau decorously cased in glass for the hour, drew up at the edge of a red carpet laid down from curb to stately porch of St. George's, Hanover Square, and Dale turned a grinning face to the doorway when Viscount Medenham led his bride down the steps through a shower of rice ...

— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy

Words linked to "Red carpet" : carpeting, rug, carpet, uncommon