capitonym, tangier, flokati rug

capitonym

(KAP-i-toh-NIM)

noun
A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized.

Usage
As in the following poems: Job's Job In August, an august patriarch Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass. Long-suffering Job secured a job To polish piles of Polish brass. Herb's Herbs An herb store owner, name of Herb, Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier. It would have been so nice in Nice, And even tangier in Tangier.


tangier 該地產的橘子

also Tan·giers (-jîrz')

A city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar. Founded in Roman times and later controlled by a variety of powers, including Portugal and Great Britain, it was administered as part of an international zone from 1923-1924 until 1956. Population: 669,000.

A flokati rug is a wool rug. They date back to 5th Century Roman province of Macedonia, where they were used by Vlach shepherds, near Samarina, currently in Greece, which is the highest village in the Pindos mountains.

After the rug is hand-woven from 100% wool, each flokati rug is placed, for up to approximately forty hours, in a soap-and–chemical-additive-free whirlpool bath filled with water from canal-channeled mountain streams from the Pindos river. It then emerges decadently thick because water pressure has caused its pile to swell. The flokati rug then is hung up to dry naturally, and “graded’ according to the weight of its wool (alphabetically). This is then usually put onto a synthetic backing. The heaviest, most luxurious flokati rugs weigh up to approximately 4000 grams per square meter.^{[citation needed]}

Even though these rugs have been a part of Vlach tradition for centuries they are also a favorite of contemporary designers.^{[citation needed]} Flokati rugs are available in a variety of colors.

Flokati rugs are very popular today for teenagers or preteens. Flokati rugs that you might find for a cheap price may not be genuine, not be made of wool, stain and get dirty very easily, unlike genuine rugs.^{[citation needed]}

Flokati rugs became well-known as a prize on the 1980s TV game show Press Your Luck.^{[citation needed]}