THE intimate world of Oriental rug dealers is about to get even cozier.

Oriental rug dealers, for example, often bid as a team and then conduct their own auction out in the parking lot later.

By 1900, however, it had become the most important of the six leading rug dealers of Smyrna.

Doris Leslie Blau, the rug dealer, is back after a four-year absence.

The area had once been crowded with Spanish food stores as well as transient hotels, and oriental rug dealers.

Despite what a rug dealer may say, the significance of many motifs is not known.

And don't let the effusive hospitality of the rug dealers make you feel obligated; it is all part of the game.

His six-room apartment was above a Persian rug dealer.

The rug dealer who ran the place was protecting his best pile of merchandise with outstretched arms.

"Sounds like the name of a rug dealer," another one said.