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

Noun

pl -tries

1. a heavy woven fabric, often in the form of a picture, used for wall hangings or furnishings

2. same as needlepoint (sense 1)

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]

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

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tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] n → tapisserie f

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tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] n (on wall) → Wandteppich m (fig); Kaleidoskop nt

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tapestry [ˈtæpɪstrɪ] n → arazzo; tappezzeria