Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A carpet laid down for important visitors.
- idiom. roll out the red carpet To welcome with great hospitality or ceremony.
Wiktionary
- n. A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
- n. VIP treatment.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. special treatment or hospitality
- n. a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on
Examples
“He led him to the wide marble staircase, which had a thick-piled red carpet running down the middle.”
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
“He is currently the red carpet commentator for NBCs Extra and the exclusive Style Guy for Jones New York, helping women to craft their style.”
“Grace Kelly and Dorothy Dandridge immediately come to mind when I see a lovely, fluid ball gown skirt that speaks of the 1950s, an era when starlets such as these put in the time to create the look and mood that we now know to be the proverbial red carpet moment—usually without the help of what we call today a “celebrity stylist.””
“He referred to the red carpet that some official belonging to the duumviri had laid down the full length of the jetty, a sign of kingliness that horrified Octavian.”
“They descended the stairs with precision, unrolling a red carpet and tucking it securely onto each step.”
“There's lively activity today in the light and charming offices of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies on the Promenade des Anglais; two agents de police are holding the clear for invited guests to stride up the red carpet into the welcoming and pleasantly cool amphitheater.”
“Its a different story if I am dressing for the red carpet or a special eventthen I like to push the envelope I call it tapping that Cher factor and be more daring.”
“Take Cardinal Mindszenty out with you and we will roll out the red carpet at the border.”
“Red mahogany furniture, with startling shiny emerald leather chair-cushions; red carpet and green curtains.”
The Life of John Ruskin
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘red carpet’.
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EN - coloured collocations
The bad news: There are possibly tens of thousands of colour collocations in English. The good news is that the pictures retrieved by Wordnik from flickr will probably match the terms this time.
black currant, black eye, black pudding, blue baby, Blue Beard, blue bell, blue berry, blue blood, Blue Book, blue bottle, blue cheese, blue chip and 280 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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Carp
carp, carping, carpet, pilocarpine, parthenocarpy, carper, basidiocarp, acarpous, apocarpous, ascocarp, Brussels carpet, carpe diem and 104 more...
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red phrases /words
how red is used
bushy red mint, California red scale, dark red silver ore, down the red lane, Florida red scale, in red, in the red, in (the) red row, Knights of the Re..., light red silver ore, old red lammas, on red and 764 more...
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Floor Coverings
Words for carpets, rugs, mats, and other floor coverings.
tatami, drugget, bocking, corticine, wood-carpet, wood-carpeting, altar-carpet, scatter rug, throw rug, carpeting, kidderminster, floorcloth and 64 more...
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film / theatre vocab
feature film, grip, dolly, skit, sketch, footage, blockbuster, flick, klieg light, double bill, double feature, newsreel and 4 more...
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Reds
Inspired by hernesheir's Greens list.
blood red, red, red-backed, redbait, red-bellied, redbird, red-blooded, redbreast, red-breasted, redbrick, red-brown, redbud and 51 more...
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Room At The Inn
Words to do with hotels, inns, resorts, guesthouses ... broad in scope :-)
no-show, guesthouse, booking, room, single, double, triple, restaurant, concierge, laundry service, turn-down, porter and 81 more...
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