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A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY2998). examples
plural Axminsters
A carpet made in Axminster imitating the Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile. quotations examples
A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], page 0016