Tapestry
['tæpɪstrɪ] or ['tæpəstri]
Definition
(noun.) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
(noun.) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery.
(noun.) something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; 'the tapestry of European history'.
Edited by Gertrude--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
(v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
Edited by Ellis
Definition
n. an ornamental textile used for the covering of walls and furniture and for curtains and hangings—divided into two classes according as they are made in high-warp (haute lisse) or low-warp (basse lisse) looms.—v.t. to adorn with tapestry—n. Tap′et (Spens.).
Editor: Rena
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing rich tapestry, foretells that luxurious living will be to your liking, and if the tapestries are not worn or ragged, you will be able to gratify your inclinations. If a young woman dreams that her rooms are hung with tapestry, she will soon wed some one who is rich and above her in standing.
Checker: Witt
Examples
- A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thus Celia, mutely bending over her tapestry, until she heard her sister calling her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I carried my report to where he sat in the old tapestry-hung dining-room with his two prisoners before him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, then, turn the tapestry, said the Jewess, and let me see the other side. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The bed was adorned with the same rich tapestry, and surrounded with curtains dyed with purple. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Lily had an odd sense of being behind the social tapestry, on the side where the threads were knotted and the loose ends hung. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They are the ornamental tapestry of history, and no part of the building. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The magnificent rugs and tapestries of Persia and Turkey, and the silks of India and Japan, give evidence that a knowledge of dyes is widespread and ancient. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The walls of the apartment were completely hung with splendid tapestries which hid any windows or doors which may have pierced them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The walls of this room were hung with transparent tapestries behind which I secreted myself without being apprehended. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- My guide drew aside one of the tapestries, disclosing a passage which encircled the room, between the hangings and the walls of the chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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