Carpetmonger

Origin

carpet + -monger

Full definition of carpetmonger

Noun

1. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
2. (obsolete) One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
• 1599, William Shakespeare, ,... Leander the good swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse ...