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ar·ras1    Audio Help   [ar-uhs] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a rich tapestry.
2.a tapestry weave.
3.a wall hanging, as a tapestry or similar object.
4.Theater. a curtain suspended loosely across a stage and used as a backdrop or part of a stage setting.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME, named after Arras]

arrased, adjective
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ar·ras2    Audio Help   [ahr-ahs; Sp. ahr-rahs] Pronunciation Key
–noun (used with a singular verb)
a gift presented at marriage by a husband to his wife in consideration of her dowry.

[Origin: < Sp: lit., earnest money. See earnest2]
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a city in and capital of Pas-de-Calais, in N France: battles in World War I. 50,386.
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ar·ras    Audio Help   (ār'əs)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. arras
  1. A wall hanging; a tapestry.
  2. A curtain or wall hanging, especially one of Flemish origin.


[Middle English, after Arras.]

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Ar·ras    Audio Help   (ār'əs, ə-räs')  Pronunciation Key 
A city of northern France south-southwest of Lille. It was a famous woolen and tapestry center in the Middle Ages. Population: 41,000.

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arras 
1397, from Anglo-Norm. draps d'arras, from Arras, city in France where pictured tapestries were made, from L. Atrebates, name of as tribe of the Belgae.

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arras

noun
a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs [syn: tapestry

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Arras

Ar"ras\, n. [From Arras the capital of Artois, in the French Netherlands.] Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.

Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. --Cowper.

Behind the arras I'll convey myself. --Shak.
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Arras

Ar"ras\, v. t. To furnish with an arras. --Chapman.
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