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tapestry

[ tap-uh-stree ]

noun

plural tapestries.
  1. a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
  2. a machine-woven reproduction of this.


verb (used with object)

tapestried, tapestrying.
  1. to furnish, cover, or adorn with tapestry.
  2. to represent or depict in a tapestry.

tapestry

/ ˈæɪٰɪ /

noun

  1. 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. another word for needlepoint
  3. a colourful and complicated situation

    the rich tapestry of London life

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٲٰ, adjective
  • ˈٲٰ-ˌ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٲIJ·ٰ· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tapestry1

1400–50; late Middle English tapst ( e ) ry, tapistry < Middle French tapisserie carpeting. See tapis, -ery
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tapestry1

C15: from Old French tapisserie carpeting, from Old French tapiz carpet; see tapis
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Forget forced perspective tricks; this is a full-scale mini city complete with multiple eateries, elegant shops, wind-torn tapestries and domed palaces.

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In contrast to computer memory, which always follows the same pattern of 1s and 0s, it's more like networks in our brain weave a new tapestry every time we think about something.

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A company catalog from 1923 described the tiles as “luminous and mellow in character, somewhat akin to the quality of a piece of old tapestry.”

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“Red Scare” is a tapestry of individual dramas and miniature paranoid thrillers, each defined by the zeal of the age, a few resulting in the actual apprehension of Soviet spies.

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Her commission — an 11-by-26½-foot tapestry invoking the ethereal topography of Mars — was being woven on one of the largest Jacquard looms in the world.

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