Word info

magic carpet

Noun

Meaning

(fiction) A carpet capable either of magical flight, or instantaneous transport from one place to another, used as a means of travel.
Synonym: flying carpet

(skiing) A conveyor belt to transport skiers/snowboarders.

Synonym: carpet lift
Coordinate terms: T-bar, chairlift, ski lift, rope-tow

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? Jeanette Winterson

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. Caroline Gordon

Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension. Jessye Norman

Imagination is the true magic carpet. Norman Vincent Peale

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. Frank Auerbach

Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept. Alan Coren

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