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n.
A carpet laid down for important visitors.

idiom:

roll out the red carpet

  1. To welcome with great hospitality or ceremony.


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Honorary treatment, lavish hospitality, as in We'll have to get out the red carpet for the President's visit. This term comes from the literal practice of rolling out a carpet to welcome a royal or other esteemed guest, and indeed is often put as roll out the red carpet. [Early 1900s]


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IN BRIEF: adj. - Special treatment or hospitality.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on


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