red carpet

red carpet

See also: red-carpet

English

Noun

red carpet (plural red carpets)

1. A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
   • 2012, Simon Packham, The Bex Factor:

     I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]

   • 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.

2. (figuratively) VIP treatment.

Translations

a strip of red carpet laid for a VIP

Armenian: կարմիր գորգ (karmir gorg) Basque: alfonbra gorri Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: røde løber Dutch: rode loper m Estonian: punane vaip Finnish: punainen matto French: tapis rouge (fr) m German: Roter Teppich m Hebrew: שָׁטִיחַ אָדֹם‎ m (shatíakh adóm) Hungarian: vörös szőnyeg (hu) Italian: tappeto rosso m, red carpet m Japanese: レッドカーペット (reddo kāpetto) Mongolian: улаан хивс (ulaan xivs) Norwegian: Bokmål: rød løper (den røde løperen) Persian: فرش قرمز‎ (farš-e qermez) Polish: czerwony dywan m Portuguese: tapete vermelho (pt) m Russian: красная дорожка (ru) f (krasnaja dorožka) Spanish: alfombra roja f Swedish: röda mattan Vietnamese: thảm đỏ (vi)

VIP treatment

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: rode loper m Finnish: punainen matto French: tapis rouge (fr) m