aubusson

• Violins played softly all the time, behind a kind of Niagara Falls at the end of the room, which is magnificent; it is hung with aubusson, almost as good as what they had at Croixmare, which has been there always After dinner, while we were in the drawing-room alone, a note came for Mrs. Murray-Hartley. She was talking to Octavia and me, so she read it aloud; it was from Lord Valmond, and sent from the inn in the little town. —  The Visits of Elizabeth
• We can only assume that in Zach's mind "The Shot Club" also includes smoking jackets, thick aubusson rugs, brandy snifters, and revenge plans. —  Interchangeable Parts
• She found herself presently staring through her fingers at the pattern in the gray aubusson carpet -- and wondering where she was. —  The Secret Witness
• He would tell of the length and the breadth of the ball room, of the parquet floor usually covered with an aubusson carpet but the carpet had been lifted and the gilded furniture taken away; the windows and the recesses had been filled with flowers, and to keep these fresh, great blocks of ice had been placed in the niches. —  Memoirs of My Dead Life

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