red carpet

See also: red-carpet

English

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Noun

red carpet (plural red carpets)

1. A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
   • 2012, Simon Packham, The Bex Factor:

     I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]

   • 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[1]:

     This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.

2. (figurative) VIP treatment.

Translations

a strip of red carpet laid for a VIP

• Armenian: կարմիր գորգ (karmir gorg)
• Basque: alfonbra gorri
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅毯／红毯 (zh) (hóngtǎn)

• Danish: røde løber
• Dutch: rode loper m
• Estonian: punane vaip
• Finnish: punainen matto
• French: tapis rouge (fr) m
• German: Roter Teppich m
• Hebrew: שָׁטִיחַ אָדֹם m (shatíakh adóm)
• Hungarian: vörös szőnyeg (hu)
• Italian: tappeto rosso m, red carpet m
• Japanese: レッドカーペット (reddo kāpetto)
• Korean: 레드카펫 (redeukapet)
• Mongolian: улаан хивс (ulaan xivs)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rød løper (den røde løperen)

• Persian: فرش قرمز (farš-e qermez)
• Polish: czerwony dywan m
• Portuguese: tapete vermelho (pt) m
• Russian: красная дорожка (ru) f (krasnaja dorožka)
• Spanish: alfombra roja f
• Swedish: röda mattan
• Vietnamese: thảm đỏ (vi)

VIP treatment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: rode loper m
• Finnish: punainen matto
• French: tapis rouge (fr) m