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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cart.
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They typically use things like red carpet photos where the subject willingly posed (e.g., to show off their new Vera Wang gown) for a different purpose (e.g., to show them with an unfortunate facial expression at a random moment on the red carpent in order to indicate a look of horror because they have recently been served with a divorce papers).
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The painters paint, the upholsterers upholster, and the carpenters _carpent_ precisely when and as I wish.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Oh, my dearest and best, you don't know what it is to _live_ till you've learned to _carpent_!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 Various
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Similis eft fententia Virgilii de agro Mantuano etTarentino: Et quantum tongis carpent armenta diebus, exigua tantum gettdus ros noSe reponet.
Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794
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