oriental rug

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While an apprentice architect, Kahn's superiors began to suspect that he was color blind and he was called into the office and asked to identify the colors in the oriental rug there.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2018

Wearing black bathrobes, they sit facing each other on an oriental rug, tattooed wrists pressed together.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2018

That year, Republican professionals seemed most worried about a scandal that voters probably didn’t care about: Ike’s chief of staff, Sherman Adams, had accepted unseemly gifts, including an oriental rug and a vicuña coat.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2014

In the toasty grand hall upstairs, protesters dozed on colorful blankets that stretch across the room like a vast oriental rug.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2013

The very fancy oriental rug covering the wooden floor and the slate flagstones of the hearth only served to make the room seem even more imposing.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland