rug

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

rug [rug rugs] BrE [rʌɡ] NAmE [rʌɡ] noun
1. a piece of thick material like a small carpet that is used for covering or decorating part of a floor
•a hearth rug (= in front of a ↑fireplace )
•an oriental rug
•a sheepskin rug
2. (BrE)a piece of thick warm material, like a ↑blanket, that is used for wrapping around your legs to keep warm
•a travelling rug
•a tartan rug
3. (informal, especially NAmE) = ↑toupee
see pull the rug (out) from under sb's feet at ↑pull _v., sweep sth under the rug at ↑sweep _v.

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. (denoting a type of coarse woollen cloth): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian dialect rugga ‘coverlet’, Swedish rugg ‘ruffled hair’; related to ↑rag ‘piece of cloth’. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th cent.

Example Bank:
•A Persian rug covered the polished floor.
•There were several brightly coloured rugs scattered around.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  carpet, carpeting