Brussels carpet

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A machine-made carpet consisting of small, colored woolen loops that form a heavy, patterned pile.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. See the nouns.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern.
2. n. See under Brussels.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a carpet with a strong linen warp and a heavy pile of colored woolen yarns drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern