Carpetway

Car´pet`way`

(Agric.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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The landlord, in plain clothes, and bareheaded, placed himself on the bottom marble step, abreast the PORTIER, who stood on the other end of the same steps; six or eight waiters, gloved, bareheaded, and wearing their whitest linen, their whitest cravats, and their finest swallow-tails, grouped themselves about these chiefs, but leaving the carpetway clear.

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