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TAPESTRIED

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tap⋅es⋅tried

[tap-uh-streed]
–adjective
1. furnished or covered with tapestries.
2. represented in tapestry, as a story.

Origin:
1620–30; tapestry + -ed 2 , -ed 3

tap⋅es⋅try

[tap-uh-stree] noun, plural -tries, verb, -tried, -try⋅ing.
–noun
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)
3. to furnish, cover, or adorn with tapestry.
4. to represent or depict in a tapestry.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME tapst(e)ry, tapistry < MF tapisserie carpeting. See tapis, -ery


tap⋅es⋅try⋅like, adjective
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tap·es·try   (tāp'ĭ-strē)   
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 (-ĭ-strēd), tap·es·try·ing, tap·es·tries (-ĭ-strēz)
  1. To hang or decorate with tapestry.

  2. To make, weave, or depict in a tapestry.


[Middle English tapiceri, tapstri, from Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, to cover with carpet, from tapis, carpet, from Greek tapētion, diminutive of tapēs, perhaps of Iranian origin.]
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Word Origin & History

tapestry 
1434, variant of tapissery (1426), from M.Fr. tapisserie "tapestry" (14c.), from tapisser "to cover with heavy fabric," from tapis "heavy fabric," from O.Fr. tapiz (12c.), from V.L. *tappetium, from Byzantine Gk. tapetion, from classical Gk., dim. of tapes (gen. tapetos) "tapestry, heavy fabric," probably from an Iranian source (cf. Pers. taftan, tabidan "to turn, twist"). The figurative use is first recorded 1581.
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