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/tˈərki rɛd/ Listen

proper noun

Turkey n. A country in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

Turkey carpet, a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere.

Turkey oak. (Bot.) See Cerris.

Turkey red.

(a)

A brilliant red imparted by madder to cottons, calicoes, etc., the fiber of which has been prepared previously with oil or other fatty matter.

(b)

Cloth dyed with this red.

Turkey sponge. (Zool.) See Toilet sponge, under Sponge.

Turkey stone, a kind of oilstone from Turkey; novaculite; called also Turkey oilstone.

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... indicated by a farmer not far from Chicago in his use of table coverings, as follows: For the family, oil cloth; for the school teacher, turkey red; for the ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... and Katy's—(Bel had Aunt Blin's great flat-topped one now, with its cushion and flounce of Turkey red; and Kate had speedily stitched up a cover for hers to match, of cloth that Mrs. Scherman gave her) stood one each side the chimney,—in the recesses. A red and white patchwork quilt, done in stars, Bel's own work before she ever came ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... geraniums in the windows;—and when a visitor arrives, the hostess begins to groan as though an enemy were approaching. What chance is there for love-making, and amours in such a place? Sometimes it happened that they would not even admit me. Their maid-servant, a robust peasant-woman, in a Turkey red cotton sarafan,[63] and pendulous breasts, would place herself across the path in the anteroom and roar: 'Whither away?' No, I positively cannot understand what made her poison herself. She must have grown tired of life," Kupfer philosophically ...

— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... Turkey red with a vertical white crescent (the closed portion is toward the hoist side) and white five-pointed star centered just ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... way, make a red room by using Turkey red for your draperies; or a blue room by using blue chintz. Let your chintz be of a small pattern, and one that ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe