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Tapestry
Definitions
- 1 A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls. countable, uncountable
"Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind."
- 2 a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs wordnet
- 3 Anything with variegated or complex details. broadly, countable, uncountable
"European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River."
- 4 a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery wordnet
- 5 something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy wordnet
- 1 To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry. intransitive, transitive
"We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues […]"
Etymology
From Middle English tapestrie, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
From Middle English tapestrie, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.
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