the.com/throw rug

means A small, loose area rug — not tacked down, not wall-to-wall — that you can pick up and toss wherever a floor needs warming.

from Straightforward compound: 'throw' in the old sense of something casually tossed or draped (as in a 'throw blanket'), plus 'rug,' which traces back to a Scandinavian word for coarse, shaggy cloth. The 'throw' part signals impermanence — it's a rug you can literally pick up and relocate, unlike a fitted carpet nailed to your floor and your fate.