carpetmonger
English
Etymology
carpet + monger
Noun
carpetmonger (plural carpetmongers)
- One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
- (obsolete) One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 2
- [...] 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 [...]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 2
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)