At the time I thought the word "moquette" an odd word but never knew its meaning, but now 50 years later, your French word-a-day has granted me enlightenment and explains that word so clearly and so well.    From Wordnik.com.  [bibi - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Lace curtains and moquette carpets would be nowhere apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference

Two large suitcases stood beside the two-seater beige moquette settee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

Chairs and settees were in dark gold leather and moquette, and the curtains of shot gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear is the Key]

The bright orange leaves, fallen, along with their newly-cut branches, are like flames over nature's snowy moquette de fleurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [bibi - French Word-A-Day] Reference

She had been put to sit on a beige moquette chair near an oil heater with the heat turned low and given a tumbler of warm milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Rapunzel]

He shook hands with a warm pudgy palm, ushered them to moquette-covered chairs, and announced his secretary would rustle up some coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost at Christmas]

There were footsteps on the moquette, and she opened the door for him, not in the least embarrassed, without having taken the trouble to put on a robe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret's Revolver]

The binding of the brakes woke Albert Potter from a doze, and he grasped the moquette-covered arm of his seat tightly as the carriage juddered to a halt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Compared to Heinz cream of tomato and the moquette benches and U-bends of the British railway carriage, these initial experiences implied an inferior way of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [So close, yet so far away – Europe is still something of a mystery to many of us | Ian Jack] Reference

The door to the first-floor flat was wide open and they walked into a largish room, barely furnished with a TV set and a three-piece suite in a faded floral moquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 02:58 PM moquette de fleurs -- While I read and enjoy your French word-a-day, the above expression particularly caught my eye, not only for the unique photo of the flowers, but the word moquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [bibi - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 02: 58 PM moquette de fleurs -- While I read and enjoy your French word-a-day, the above expression particularly caught my eye, not only for the unique photo of the flowers, but the word moquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [bibi - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Silks and moquette harmonize as well as calico and ingrain once did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference

Also new are moquette-covered seats for the Alterra's Zen Edition variant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

The Japanese were ahead when it came to priority seat markings on upholstery or moquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media] Reference

"The moquette fabric is more expensive than the textiles we have proposed for the train," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

In the sitting-room there are capacious sofas - an aura of Aubusson, cut moquette, damask - and deep carpets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Self indulgently, this is from one of our editors but it's a goodie: on the unveiling of the new Underground moquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Londonist] Reference

Refined velour-moquette seat covers are treated with mite-suppressing agent that also prevents static electricity, adding to passenger comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Automotive Headlines] Reference

The owner of the company that made the fabric, Michael Fitzsimons, says the Transport Minister David Campbell must overturn the moquette decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

He was sitting motionless, his elbows on his knees, his big chest and shoulders inclined forward, his gaze fixed upon a wreath of red roses in the pattern of the moquette carpet -- that carpet upon which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Generation] Reference

She ascended a winding iron stairway draped with tapestries, her tiny feet sinking into the moquette that covered the steps, and entered a noiseless salon where men and women were silently sitting before three tables, writing or reading, just as in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Excellency the Minister] Reference

As she ascended the stairs -- her apartment was on the second floor -- she looked about her, taking in satisfactory details, the worn moquette carpet, the artificial palm on a pedestal in the corner, the high, gilt-topped mirror at the turn on the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference

She was rather elaborately dressed for so simple an occasion, and her silken train coiled itself far out over the mossy depth of the moquette carpet; the pale blue satin of the furniture, and the delicate white and gold of the decorations, became her wonderfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Instance] Reference

→ la moquette (fitted carpet) → la savonnette (small bar of soap) → la mouette (seagull) → une alouette (lark) → la bergeronnette (wagtail) → la sucette (lollipop) → la crevette (shrimp) → une omelette.    From Wordnik.com.  [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference

One moquette to rule them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Londonist] Reference

Some sort of moquette, I should say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference

→ la moquette fitted carpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Sembra pulito anche se la moquette è ovunque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

moquette ».    From Wordnik.com.  [espoir - French Word-A-Day] Reference

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