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rug

noun as in carpet

noun as in hairpiece

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In addition to adjusting to a new culture, Magbegor felt undereducated on the history and marginalization of indigenous Australians, something she says is often swept under the rug in the country’s school system.

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Bissell’s Crosswave vacuum cleaner is designed specifically for heavy debris and hair collection on a variety of surfaces from sealed hardwood and laminate floors to carpet, area rugs, and everywhere in between.

Its six rotary-selectable settings are tailored for drapes, furniture, rugs, bare floors, carpet, and more.

If that’s not possible, avoid working out on a carpet or rug, since it will literally soak up your sweat.

There’s a divide being created I hope we can sweep under the rug when it’s time to go back.

The “24-hour news cycle” just makes them harder to sweep under the rug and ignore.

“I had to lie on a huge, fur rug and have a nightmare,” Prince Charles told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.

Or, to put it more accurately: conflict is inevitably swept under the rug, at any and all costs.

A barefoot corpse in camouflaged khakis is being carried into the street, partially wrapped in rug, as I enter the house.

That is, until he ditches the crutches and really cuts a rug, to the delight of everyone looking on.

The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.

Though she was warmly wrapped in a soft rug of silvery fur, a chill crept into her heart.

When Yung Pak ate his meals, he sat upon a rug on the floor with his father and such male guests as might be in the house.

The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.

On the sheepskin rug before the fire a Manx cat was dozing beside a pair of carpet slippers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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