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tap·es·try

Audio Help [tap-uh-stree] Pronunciation Key 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

]

—Related forms

tap·es·try·like, adjective

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tap·es·try Audio Help (tāp'ĭ-strē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. tap·es·tries

A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration and sometimes used to cover furniture.
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)

To hang or decorate with tapestry.
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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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tapestry
noun
1.	something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; "the tapestry of European history"
2.	a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery
3.	a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tapestry [ˈtӕpəstri] noun — plural ˈtapestries

(a piece of) cloth into which a picture or design has been sewn or woven, hung on a wall for decoration or used to cover eg the seats of chairs
Example: Four large tapestries hung on the walls.

Arabic:	نَسيج مُطَرَّز، تَطْريز
Chinese (Simplified):	挂毯
Chinese (Traditional):	掛毯
Czech:	tapisérie
Danish:	gobelin; vægtæppe
Dutch:	tapisserie
Estonian:	gobelään
Finnish:	seinävaate
French:	tapisserie
German:	der Gobelin
Greek:	χαλί τοίχου
Hungarian:	(fali)szőnyeg
Icelandic:	myndvefnaður
Indonesian:	kain bersulam
Italian:	arazzo

Japanese:	つづれ織
Latvian:	gobelēns
Lithuanian:	gobelenas
Norwegian:	bildevev, gobelin
Polish:	gobelin
Portuguese (Brazil):	tapeçaria
Portuguese (Portugal):	tapeçaria
Romanian:	tapet; tapiserie
Russian:	гобелен
Slovak:	tapiséria, gobelín
Slovenian:	tapiserija
Spanish:	tapicería
Swedish:	gobeläng
Turkish:	goblen, duvar örtüsü

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Tapestry

Tape\, n. [AS. t[ae]ppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.]

1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

Red tape. See under Red.

Tape grass (Bot.), a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery.

Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Tapestry

Tap"es*try\, n.; pl. Tapestries. [F. tapissere, fr. tapisser to carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet, carpeting, LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Tapis, Tippet.] 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.

Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth.

Tapestry moth. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.

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