becarpetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

becarpet (三人称単数 現在形 becarpets, 現在分詞 becarpeting, 過去形および過去分詞形 becarpeted)

1. (transitive, poetic) To cover like a carpet.
   • 1918, Harper's Monthly Magazine (volume 137, page 665)

     And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]

   • 1933, Leonard Barnes, Youth at Arms (page 9)

     The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […]