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[shag] / ʃæg /














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Now Britons are growing exasperated with a decorator whose tastes run to the intellectual equivalent of avocado-colored appliances and garish shag carpeting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Upstairs in Grossman’s office, which is now her architecture studio, she also removed the shag carpeting and replaced it with colorful cork flooring designed to feel like “fallen, random leaves,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

The fulcrum of a cultural transition from vibrancy to stagnation was the 1970s, an era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

Initial figures suggest the shag population is down by 75% on the inner islands, but there is some hope.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

Her black hair was cut in a shag.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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