tapestry

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.

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[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.]

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tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ]

n pl -tries

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a heavy ornamental fabric, often in the form of a picture, used for wall hangings, furnishings, etc., and made by weaving coloured threads into a fixed warp

2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Knitting & Sewing) another word for needlepoint

3. a colourful and complicated situation the rich tapestry of London life

[from Old French tapisserie carpeting, from Old French tapiz carpet; see tapis]

tapestried  adj

tapestry-like  adj

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tap•es•try (ˈtæp ə stri)

n., pl. -tries, n.

1. a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a reversible design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.

2. a machine-woven, nonreversible reproduction of this.

v.t.

3. to furnish, cover, or adorn with tapestry.

4. to represent or depict in a tapestry.

[1400–50; late Middle English tapst(e)ry, tapistry < Middle French tapisserie carpeting. See tapis]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tapestry - 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.	tapestry - a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery tapis 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 arras 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

tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] N (= object) → tapiz m; (= art) → tapicería f

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tapestry [ˈtæpɪstri] n

(= needlework) → tapisserie f

(fig) → fresque f
The book presents a tapestry of teenage life in the provinces → Le livre est une fresque de la vie adolescente en province.

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tapestry

n → Wand- or Bildteppich m; (= fabric) → Gobelin m; tapestry-making → Tapisserie f; it’s all part of life’s rich tapestry → das gibt alles dem Leben mehr Würze

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tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] n (object) → arazzo, tappezzeria; (art) → mezzo punto

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tapestry (ˈtӕpəstri) – plural ˈtapestries – noun

(a piece of) cloth into which a picture or design has been sewn or woven, hung on a wall for decoration or used to cover eg the seats of chairs. Four large tapestries hung on the walls. tapisserie نَسيج مُطَرَّز، تَطْريز гоблен tapeçaria tapisérie der Gobelin gobelin; vægtæppe χαλί τοίχου tapicería gobelään فرشینه seinävaate tapisserie שָׁטִיחַ קִיר टेपेस्ट्री कपड़ा जिसमे चित्र बने हो goblen (fali)szőnyeg kain bersulam myndvefnaður arazzo つづれ織 무늬를 놓은 양탄자 gobelenas gobelēns dewangga tapisserie bildevev, gobelin gobelin tapeçaria tapet; tapiserie гобелен tapiséria, gobelín tapiserija tapiserija gobeläng สิ่งทอหรือม่านลายดอกซึ่งแขวนประดับฝาผนัง goblen, duvar örtüsü 掛毯 гобелен منقش کپڑا، مشجر thảm thêu 挂毯