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
[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.]
[tap-uh-stree] 
noun, plural -tries, verb, -tried, -try⋅ing.
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