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countable and uncountable, plural moquettes
A kind of fabric with a thick pile used for carpeting or to upholster seating, etc. quotations examples
The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94
A winter of walking about in the rain down snowlit streets; overheated hotel-rooms with the smell of furry moquette […]
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 178
You can buy a bag made out of Tube or bus seat moquette, or commission a sofa made in that moquette, so you can be sitting watching television on the same stuff you rode home from work on ... except that historical moquettes are what interest most people.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 270
An article covered in such material. examples