becarpet

English

Etymology

be- +‎ carpet

Verb

becarpet (third-person singular simple present becarpets, present participle becarpeting, simple past and past participle becarpeted)

1. (transitive, poetic) To cover like a carpet.
   • 1918, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 137, page 665:

     And outside was the garden, with its lemon-trees growing in vast jars-like the jars of Knossos—but marked with Barberini bees; its white and red camellias becarpeting the soft grass with their fallen petals; […]

   • 1933, Leonard Barnes, Youth at Arms, page 9:

     The billet-village decks its glades / With leafy poplar-colonnades / And apple-orchards where the bloom / Makes every tree a great mushroom / Of petals pink as summer dawn, / Soon to becarpet all the lawn […]