Axminster

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Axminster \Ax"min*ster\, n., or Axminster carpet \Axminster
  carpet\ .
     (a) [More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey
         carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches
         wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted
         chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout


         jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from
         Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835)
         made.
     (b) A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling
         moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of
         better material.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]