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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.
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Tapestry
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Example Sentences
- Enjoy her personal stories and luminous images of people and places that reveal the rich tapestry of the human experience.
- Even the gentle art of tapestry itself was transmuted into violence.
- From this vantage point, the luxuriant tapestry appears as thick as ancient rain-forest canopy.
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| tapestry (ˈtæpɪstrɪ) | |
| —n , pl -tries | |
| 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 |
| [C15: from Old French tapisserie carpeting, from Old French tapiz carpet; see | |
| 'tapestried | |
| —adj | |
| 'tapestry-like | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
tapestry
mid-15c., variant of tapissery (early 15c.), 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,"
EXPANDprobably from an Iranian source (cf. Pers. taftan, tabidan "to turn, twist"). The figurative use is first recorded 1580s.
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