From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha carpet of somethinga carpet of somethingliteraryCOVER a thick layer of something on the ground a carpet of flowers → carpet
Examples from the Corpus
a carpet of something• Here is also a carpet of two-to three-inch-tall balsam firs, and similarly-sized red maples.• Below nothing was moving, but there appeared to be a carpet of dead bodies.• It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers.• There is a carpet of sunshine on the floor and blue sky filling the windows.• We were there in Spring and walked on a carpet of wild flowers.• All these obelisks are dark and sinister, their hulking forms glowering over a carpet of white bones under leaden skies.• The night had strewn a carpet of dew-beaded cobwebs across the lawn and mist was rising from the river. 