The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
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Tapestry
//ˈtæpəstɹi//
Synonyms for "tapestry" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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5 entriesderived
3 entriesis a
8 entriesrelated to
11 entriesused for
15 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- гоблен noun (heavy woven cloth)
Catalan
1 entries- tapís noun (heavy woven cloth)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 壁毯 noun (heavy woven cloth)
- 掛毯 /挂毯 noun (heavy woven cloth)
Czech
1 entries- tapiserie noun (heavy woven cloth)
Danish
1 entries- gobelin noun (heavy woven cloth)
Dutch
2 entries- gobelin noun (heavy woven cloth)
- wandtapijt noun (heavy woven cloth)
Esperanto
2 entries- gobelino noun (heavy woven cloth)
- tapeto noun (heavy woven cloth)
Finnish
4 entries- kudos noun (anything with variegated or complex details)
- labyrintti noun (anything with variegated or complex details)
- seinävaate noun (heavy woven cloth)
- koristella seinävaattein verb (to decorate with tapestry)
French
3 entries- mosaïque noun (anything with variegated or complex details)
- tapisserie noun (heavy woven cloth)
- tapisser verb (to decorate with tapestry)
Galician
1 entries- tapiz noun (heavy woven cloth)
German
4 entries- Bildteppich noun (heavy woven cloth)
- Bildwirkerei noun (heavy woven cloth)
- Gobelin noun (heavy woven cloth)
- Tapisserie noun (heavy woven cloth)
Italian
2 entries- arazzo noun (heavy woven cloth)
- tappezzeria noun (heavy woven cloth)
Japanese
1 entries- タペストリー noun (heavy woven cloth)
Middle English
2 entries- tapestrie noun (heavy woven cloth)
- tapiserie noun (heavy woven cloth)
Māori
1 entries- tui raumata noun (heavy woven cloth)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- زار noun (heavy woven cloth)
- زارلامق verb (to decorate with tapestry)
Polish
1 entries- tapiseria noun (heavy woven cloth)
Portuguese
1 entries- tapeçaria noun (heavy woven cloth)
Romanian
1 entries- tapiserie noun (heavy woven cloth)
Russian
2 entries- гобеле́н noun (heavy woven cloth)
- шпалера noun (heavy woven cloth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tapisèrija noun (heavy woven cloth)
- таписѐрија noun (heavy woven cloth)
Spanish
3 entries- tapiz noun (heavy woven cloth)
- tapiz noun (anything with variegated or complex details)
- tapizar verb (to decorate with tapestry)
Swedish
1 entries- gobeläng noun (heavy woven cloth)
Turkish
2 entries- duvar halısı noun (heavy woven cloth)
- duvar kilimi noun (heavy woven cloth)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вереня noun (heavy woven cloth)
Yiddish
3 entries- באַשלאָג noun (heavy woven cloth)
- גאָבעלען noun (heavy woven cloth)
- וואַנטגעוועב noun (heavy woven cloth)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The Bayeux Tapestry commemorates the Norman conquest of England in 1066 A.D.
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Halley's comet is depicted inside the Bayeux Tapestry.
Source: tatoeba (3957601)
And forth they bring the broidered tapestry, / with purple dyed and wrought full cunningly. / The tables groan with silver; there are told / the deeds of prowess for the gazer's eye, / a long, long series, of their sires of old, / traced from the nation's birth, and graven in the gold.
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