Once-popular rug style (4)

I believe the answer is:

shag

(Other definitions for shag that I've seen before include "Bird - dance" , "Coarse tobacco - cormorant" , "Green cormorant" , "Diver" , "Kind of cormorant - tobacco" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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