A type of patterned carpet or rug with a cut pile, often featuring colorful designs.
Named after Axminster, a town in Devon, England, which became famous in the 18th century for producing high-quality carpets. Place names used as brand names often become generic terms for the product itself.
Axminster carpets became so famous in the 1700s that the town's name transformed into a technical term—like how 'Kleenex' became a term for any tissue, 'Axminster' now describes a whole carpet-weaving technique used worldwide.
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