magic carpet

noun

1. (in fairy stories) a carpet capable of transporting people through the air

carpet, magic

1. A flying carpet that takes people anywhere they wish to go. It figures in many Asian folktales, notably in the stories of the Arabian Nights .

Example Sentences

He compares the ride to riding a magic carpet or gliding around on a broomstick.

From Los Angeles Times

“You’re driving down his price, but what you don’t know, my dear leprous friend Rasseem, is that he is worth more than all the gems in Shah Khosrou’s magic carpet, and he’s twice as fast a mode of travel.”

From Literature

"The way this thing moved was so graceful, I thought it looked like a living magic carpet," said Strickrott.

From Science Daily

Bobby Hayes, who owns Magic Carpet Cleaning and was at the home while the family was out, first noticed the bird after plugging in a piece of equipment and seeing the tree start to sway.

From Seattle Times

She counts off various projects employing instruments to gauge ocean temperature, salinity and the “pressure of seawater at different depths”; echo-sounding devices to assess “aggregations of fish and zooplankton”; and the ROV, the underwater robot, like a magic carpet “flying around in the water.”

From Los Angeles Times