Bokhara rug

or Bukhara rug

noun

1. a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.

Example Sentences

The light sent a golden sheen over the silken coverlet and sparkled on the rich deep hairs of the Bokhara rug, which had come from a very exclusive auction disposing of the furnishings of a great Long Island estate.

From The New Yorker

Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has been said that “whoever has seen one Bokhara rug has seen them all.”

From Project Gutenberg

Over the foothills and valleys are spread tenderly the more delicate tints of the Master's palette; the enveiling haze is golden instead of purple, the tints of verdure and earth are softly subdued and blend together with all the exquisite harmony of an old Bokhara rug.

From Project Gutenberg

Finding that it was so, he ambled back to the centre of the worn Bokhara rug that had been under the prie-Dieu in the oratory of James II. at Dublin Castle, and resumed.

From Project Gutenberg