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tapestry

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tap·es·try  (tp-str)
n. pl. tap·es·tries
1. A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration and sometimes used to cover furniture.
2. Something felt to resemble a richly and complexly designed cloth: the tapestry of world history.
tr.v. tap·es·tried (--strd), tap·es·try·ing, tap·es·tries (--strz)
1. To hang or decorate with tapestry.
2. To make, weave, or depict in a tapestry.

[Middle English tapiceri, tapstri, from Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, to cover with carpet, from tapis, carpet, from Greek taption, diminutive of taps, perhaps of Iranian origin.]

tapestry
Noun
pl -tries
1. a heavy woven fabric, often in the form of a picture, used for wall hangings or furnishings
3. a colourful and complicated situation that is made up of many different kinds of things: the rich tapestry of Hindustani music [Old French tapisserie carpeting]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tapestrytapestry - something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; "the tapestry of European history"
complexity, complexness - the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
2.tapestrytapestry - a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
3.tapestry - a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs
edging - border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)
hanging, wall hanging - decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"
Translations
Spanish tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] n (object) → tapiz m;
(art) → tapicería

French tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] ntapisserie f
German tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] n (on wall) → Wandteppich m (fig); Kaleidoskop nt
Italian tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] narazzo; tappezzeria

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She arranged the tapestry behind us so as completely to shut out the light in the circular room.
Leaves of the Nenuphars and silken skirts the same pale green, On flower and laughing face alike the same rose-tints are seen; Like some blurred tapestry they blend within the lake displayed: You cannot part the leaves from silk, the lily from the maid.
Ten curious heads were glued to the tapestry and became pale with fury; for their ears, closely applied to the door, did not lose a syllable of what he said, while their mouths repeated as he went on, the insulting expressions of the captain to all the people in the antechamber.
 
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